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Not everyone in a particular community necessarily view toxics the same way--whereas older people see the river with trepidation, the young people are drawn to it. The appearance of toxics is not always seen in a solely negative light--there is a sense of fascination in some at the destruction that toxics cause. Soapy water in itself does not have the appearance of something dangerous, but with greater information and context, particularly in light of how the river looked in the past, the seemingly harmless soapy water has the potential to appear sinister to older generations.

The image captures the toxicity of the river. The image alongside the caption conveys the ways in which something toxic can "reconfigure the social life" of a town. 

I would like to understand more about the factory and this history of polluting the river. You discuss how toxicity has reorganized sociality, I wonder what else it has impacted for these people?

The image sounds like it was captured by one of the ethnographer's interlocutors. The image forces you to examine it which generates an affective response from the realization that this is water from a river.

I like this image as is because you are forced to examine it closely in order to figure out what you are actually looking at, which I think creates a particular experience of the image.

This visualization alongside the caption communicates the literal toxicity of a polluted river, and the impacts such toxicities have on social relations.

The visualization and caption communicate the relations that a community has with the river that bifurcates its city. It describes how these relations, particular those of "life" have been disrupted by the pollution of the river upstream from industries, due to corrupt dealings. Nonetheless, the now-untouchable water still structures daily life despite its toxicity but also generates ongoing local concern and mourning for the lost vitality of the water. 

The caption is very well written and informative, but I was left wanting to know more about the relations of power that has generated the rivers toxicity-- the explanation is currently vague. It seems to matter deeply to locales, but is this sentiment widely shared and if so, what are the mechanisms that prevent change?

It is a film still from a documentary that the author partook in creating. The image itself shows how people interact with the river's polluted waters, tentatively, and as such it suitably furthers the caption's argument and suggests the water's toxicity, despite the pleasant aesthetic. 

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