Concept Of Embodiment Research Articles

Space of energy well‐being: Social housing tenants’ everyday experiences of fuel poverty

This paper contributes to geographical perspectives on energy justice by arguing for the concept of “spaces of energy well‐being.” We build on the concepts of capabilities, home, and emotional embodiment to offer an understanding of the spatiality of well‐being. The paper draws on empirical material from a study conducted with social housing tenants in Port Kembla, Australia, following recent energy price increases. Interviews illustrate that social housing tenants engaged in reducing domestic energy consumption occupy a paradoxical space of well‐being. We argue that energy bills are lived and felt daily through bodies as anxiety, given that participants experience social housing as a therapeutic and safe place that allows possibilities to refashion the self. We better understand the dynamics of pride and shame from limiting energy use. Our analysis suggests that essential to understanding the ways social housing tenants relate to uneven access to fuel is as an emotionally embodied home making and unmaking practice.

Body‐Self Unity With a New Hip or Knee: Understanding Total Joint Replacement Within an Embodiment Framework

Medical research increasingly makes use of embodiment concepts to understand how illness disrupts unity of body and self. However, few have applied embodiment concepts in total joint replacement (TJR), an effective treatment for end‐stage arthritis. In considering why a troubling proportion of TJR recipients have continued pain and functional limitation, we ask: what role might be played by the embodied experience of living with an implant? Relevant theoretical models and prior research on embodiment in musculoskeletal health and transplantation are reviewed. Our findings suggest a research agenda with implications for addressing suboptimal outcomes in TJR.

Nurses' Experience of Body Nursing Care: A Qualitative Study.

As a practice, nursing centers on patients' bodies and how they live the experience of illness and disability through their bodies (embodiment). International nursing studies conducted on the topic of body care primarily include theoretical studies, whereas empirical studies remain sparse. The aim of this study was to describe nurses' perceptions of the role of their bodies and the bodies of patients during body care. This study used a descriptive phenomenological study based on Husserl's philosophical perspective. A purposive sample of 11 Italian registered nurses representing the highest level of nursing education, different clinical experience levels, and different clinical specialties were interviewed. Data were collected between July 2015 and September 2015. Open-ended interviews were analyzed using Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological method. Lincoln and Guba's strategies were used to ensure the trustworthiness of the data. In addition to the overarching theme, "Body care is the heart of nursing," 4 major themes with 13 subthemes emerged from the data. The 4 major themes were as follows: (1) "Body care encompasses the essence of person"; (2) "Body care touches the heart of person"; (3) "The body generates opposite strategies of care"; and (4) "In time, the body 'nourishes' the helping relationship." Nurses considered body and embodiment concepts central to nursing. Body care is treated as an experience with extraordinary emotional contents, allowing nurses to discover the essentials of human nature.

Concepts of Embodiment in Interdisciplinary Work Within a Musical Context

Integrated musical experiences have long existed, previous to and outside of the traditional concert music setting. Interdisciplinary approaches to performance creation are becoming more accepted and more common in academic music contexts. This research asks the question "How does the concept of embodiment serve the creation of interdisciplinary work within a musical context?", examined through the lens of definitions of embodiment, spinning, technology, community, and inter/multidisciplinary vs. intermediality and expanded through case studies of two of the author's recent performance works.

Fear, Flight, and Freedom: On Anti-colonial Countermasteries and Ontological Insecurities

Abstract in EnglishInUnthinking MasteryJulietta Singh argues that anticolonial discourse hinges on the contradiction of both repudiating the “mastery” of colonialism and at the same time reproducing and advocating mastery towards anticolonial liberation. Through a close reading of Fanon, Singh demonstrates the ways in which he understood countermastery as the production of “new masterful subjects.” This paper deconstructs Fanon's countermastery through the lens of ontological insecurities to illuminate how it informs the production of contemporary decolonial discourse. This paper expands Fanon's conception of decolonial embodiment through proffering queer failure and queer of color disidentification as ways of etching towards decolonial queer-feminist praxis.Key words: Coloniality, Ontology, Queer Studies, Feminist Thinking, Frantz Fanon.

Chomskyan Theory of Language: A Phenomenological Re-evaluation

The field of enquiry into the phenomenon of language has long been dominated by the Computational-Representational (C-R) theories of language. This seems to be the most natural and plausible state of affairs, given the revolutionary impact that the advent of computers and the emergence of information technology have had in our lives lately. Noam Chomsky’s variant has been the most influential among such theories. However, there are certain conceptual issues pertaining to the very method, object and modality of the Chomskyan project. In the present paper, I will try to locate these issues and contend that they arise from the peculiar conception of human embodiment involved in the propositions forming the Chomskyan scheme of language. They come to light only when engaged closely with from a phenomenological viewpoint. And this will be done in the first part. Once this is done, I will propose an alternative approach towards language, contained in the phenomenological insights on human embodiment and perception of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau Ponty. I will also hint at how befitting this alternative scheme is to the connectionist-neural network models of language, which are fast replacing the C–R models lately.

Binding Images

This article investigates the legacy and "re-use" of image and design elements from Late-Antique ritual texts in contemporary magical practice. Examples are drawn from "The Theban Magical Library" and The Books of Jeu (Codex Brucianus). The analysis includes consideration of epistemology, concepts of embodiment, and relation between image and text.

Role of Sensorimotor Cortex in Gestural-Verbal Integration.

Action comprehension that is related to language or gestural integration has been shown to engage the motor system in the brain, thus providing preliminary evidence for the gestural-verbal embodiment concept. Based on the involvement of the sensorimotor cortex (M1) in language processing, we aimed to further explore its role in the cognitive embodiment necessary for gestural-verbal integration. As such, we applied anodal (excitatory) and sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left M1 (with reference electrode over the contralateral supraorbital region) during a gestural-verbal integration task where subjects had to make a decision about the semantic congruency of the gesture (prime) and the word (target). We used a cross-over within-subject design in young subjects. Attentional load and simple reaction time (RT) tasks served as control conditions, applied during stimulation (order of three tasks was counterbalanced). Our results showed that anodal (atDCS) compared to sham tDCS (stDCS) reduced RTs in the gestural-verbal integration task, specifically for incongruent pairs of gestures and verbal expressions, with no effect on control task performance. Our findings provide evidence for the involvement of the sensorimotor system in gestural-verbal integration performance. Further, our results suggest that functional modulation induced by sensorimotor tDCS may be specific to gestural-verbal integration. Future studies should now evaluate the modulatory effect of tDCS on semantic congruency by using tDCS over additional brain regions and include assessments of neural connectivity.

Inkless Embossed Prints

It might be the first printed vestige known to man, the marks left on a wet ground of an animal that man wanted to hunt or was afraid of and wanted to hide from; when he found the paws imprinted over the ground to some extent leaving a mark impression on it that indicates its form and specie. This is our research focus, the prints of inkless embossed and debossed surfaces which falls under “3D Print Techniques”. The particular nature of inkless intaglio in its traditional form includes the embodiment elements as ink sprayed in the carved line of the plate is printed as relief or intaglio on paper. Japanese artists in 18th century used relief engraving which gave printmaking the 3D characteristic in some areas and they used inkless relief and French prints in 19th century. The new concept of embodiment in printmaking is beyond developing dimensions through ink deposition. In the artworks of contemporary abstract artist, printmaking is close to relief in its form. There are many terms used nowadays for this printmaking technique like: Embossed - Intaglio - Inkless Intaglio - Printing Gaufrage - Inkless Embossed. Now, we have to outline the plates and techniques from which we can develop inkless print with all these specifications.

Response: Postexceptionalist Puritanism: Rocking the Foundations

Response: Postexceptionalist Puritanism: Rocking the Foundations

Different tool training induces specific effects on body metric representation.

Morphology and functional aspects of the tool have been proposed to be critical factors modulating tool use-induced plasticity. However, how these aspects contribute to changing body representation has been underinvestigated. In the arm bisection task, participants have to estimate the length of their own arm by indicating its midpoint, a paradigm used to investigate the representation of the metric properties of the body. We employed this paradigm to investigate the impact of different actions onto tool embodiment. Our findings suggest that a training requiring actions mostly with proximal (shoulder) or distal (wrist) parts induces a different shift in the perceived arm midpoint. This effect is independent of, but enhanced by, the use of the tool during the training and in part influenced by specific demands of the task. These results suggest that specific motor patterns required by the training can induce different changes of body representation, calling for rethinking the concept of tool embodiment, which would be characterized not simply by the morphology of the tools, but also by the actions required for their specific use.

Performing Devotion: Belief, the Body, and the Book of Common Prayer 1775–1840

This article examines three texts published between 1775 and 1840 that attempt to model an ideal reading of the Anglican liturgy and to render it on the printed page, exploring the ways in which elocutionary instruction, acting theory and accounts of public worship intersect within them through the figures of inscription and incorporation. Reflecting on the choice of the famous actor David Garrick as an exemplary reader in the two later texts, and drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, it discusses how and why these texts attempt to regulate competing ideas regarding the concepts of performance, embodiment, and assembly. The argument is made that although prescriptive in their demands, to varying degrees these texts acknowledge their own insufficiencies, and recognise not merely the difficulty of the task of transposing oral performance to a series of textual signs, or of accounting for the nature of devout worship, but also a more fundamental excess and irreducibility in the constitution of the self.

Levinas on the Knife Edge: Body, Race, and Fascism in 1934

ABSTRACT This article concerns a concept I call “corporeal facticity.” This concept, which refers to the basic existential experience of embodiment as an inescapable self-enchainment, is introduced in Levinas's 1934 essay “Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism.” While others have interpreted this perplexing early essay in liberal and anti-fatalist terms, I argue that its powerful political arguments against both liberalism and Nazi fascism succeed only if we recognize that Levinas is affirming the fatalism of corporeal facticity as a basic existential condition rather than denouncing it, as others have thought, as the central error of Hitlerism or as the link between Hitlerism and Heidegger. After further showing how Levinas's account furnishes a complex anti-liberal diagnosis of Hitlerian biological racism, I conclude by sketching how the 1934 thesis of corporeal facticity is implicitly renewed in the conception of ethical embodiment that Levinas develops at the other end of his career in Otherwise than Being (1974).

Embodying and enacting disability as siblings: experiencing disability in relationships between young adult siblings with and without disabilities

Where one sibling has a disability, research has examined the role of disability in sibling relationships; however, the majority has reflected a normative understanding of sibling relationships and a deficit understanding of disability. Reacting to this history, this paper draws on the concepts of embodiment (absorption of bodily experience into self/identity) and enactment (performance of self/identity) to provide a new way of understanding the role of disability in sibling relationships. Using data from an Australian study of young adult siblings with and without disabilities, the paper discusses how disability is embodied and enacted in: how siblings engage in supportive and conflictual talk and everyday chat with each other; how they enact recreation and seek connection with each other; and how they strive to understand and experience their emotions about each other. The paper ends by discussing how embodiment and enactment allow a clearer understanding of disability in sibling relationships, which may be empowering for siblings.

Body and Embodiment in Goguryeo Mural Paintings: Focusing on the Influence of Confucian Culture

고구려 고분벽화 속 인물의 몸은 벽화분 내 주요 출현 위치에 따라 크게 세 부류로 구분된다. 첫째는 천장고임부 천인들의 작고 유려한 몸, 둘째는 무덤칸 내부 생활 장면 속 인물들의 밋밋한 몸, 셋째는 무덤칸 경계부 장사들의 크고 우락부락한 몸이다. 이러한 차이는 인물의 의복 착용 상태와도 연관되어, 두 번째 부류는 몸의 대부분이 의복으로 가려져 있음에 비해, 첫 번째와세 번째 부류 중에는 상체나 다리가 노출되어 있는 경우도 있다. 기존 연구에서는 위 세 부류 각각에 대한 설명이 시도되기는 하였으나 이들 사이의 관계에 대해서는 구체적인 논의가 이루어 지지 않았다. 고구려 고분벽화에 표현된 위와 같이 대조적인 형태의 몸을 이해하기 위해서는 무엇보다 먼저 현대의 이미지화되고 상품화된 몸에 길들여져 시각적 표현 주체와 대상을 서로로 부터 독립적으로 존재하는 것으로 여기는 이분법적인 사고에서 벗어나야 한다. 본고에서는 위와 같은 목적으로 20세기 후반부터 서구의 여러 학문 분야에서 집중적으로 논의된 ‘체화(體化, embodiment)’라는 개념을 고대 동아시아 유교 전통에서의 젠더화(genderization) 및 의례화 (ritualization)의 의미와 관련하여 역사적으로 맥락화하였다. 이에 기반하여, 인물 등장 고구려 벽화분 천장고임부에 주로 표현되는 천계(天界), 그리고 널길이나 무덤방 입구 벽면에 주로 표현되는 경계(境界)는 인물의 젠더화와 의례화가 이루어지지 않은 비-사회적 공간이었기 때문에 인물의 개성이나 드러난 몸 표현이 금지되지 않았던 것으로 해석하였다. 그에 비해 무덤방 내부 벽면은 인물의 개성이나 생물학적인 몸보다 사회적 관계의 조화와 유지를 위해 젠더화되고 의례 화된 몸 표현이 중요했던 공간으로 이해하였다.Diverse kinds of human or pseudo-human figures appear and disappear in Goguryeo mural paintings. They are largely divided into celestial beings near ceilings, social beings on the inside of chambers, and herculean beings on the border of chambers. While the celestial beings have free-floating slim bodies and the herculean beings huge or muscular bodies, the social beings have robot-like bodies. In previous studies these characteristics were discussed as separate topics from one another. In doing so little attention has been paid to relationships among those three different forms of human or pseudo-human beings. To understand such relationships, the concept of embodiment is introduced and examined in the context of Confucian culture. This leads to the suggestion that the contrast among the three forms of bodies was created and maintained as genderization and ritualization were closely intertwined in the definition and acknowledgement of social beings in 4-5C Goguryeo.

Dancing the Word:

ABSTRACTPraise dance is a Christian movement genre, popular among churchgoing women of color in the United States, characterized by the use of interpretive dances as vehicles of liturgical worship, testimony, and evangelism. Combining spiritual and artistic disciplines, including techniques derived from ballet and modern dance, black female praise dancers embody the gospel and cultivate religious authority in ways that reinforce orthodox norms while elevating creative skills and aesthetic sensibilities normally found outside the purview of religious tradition. Such efforts, and the challenges and opportunities they entail, demonstrate how the movement of cultural forms between secular and religious domains influences ritual innovations and the terms in which they are authorized. They also show how gendered conceptions of embodiment and power may be reimagined.

Gezi Assemblages: Embodied Encounters in the Making of an Alternative Space

The article aspires to make a claim for the potential of the Deleuze-Guattarian concept of assemblage (agencement) to account for the Occupy Movements in general and 2013 Turkey Gezi Movement in particular. Throughout the article, it is claimed that the concept of agencement provides us with useful tools to elucidate the constitution of a new dissident community in Gezi Park and the subsequent park assemblies. Special emphasis will be put on the capacity of the concept to account for the embodied and embedded nature of the Gezi Movement, an argument further supported by data coming from participatory observations throughout different phases of the mobilization, 23 in depth interviews with activists from different political backgrounds and minutes of the park assemblies. Although the concept of assemblage has started to be used in the analysis of social movements (Bennett, 2005; Chesters & Welsh, 2006; Lockie 2004; McFarlane, 2009; Rodriguez-Giralt, 2011, 2015; Rodriguez-Giralt & Marrero-Guillamón,2018), not much emphasis is given to the concepts of embodiment and body in assemblages. This article aspires to contribute to the literature by first underlining the importance of embodiment in the Gezi movement and second elucidating it with respect to the concept of body in the original use of the term of assemblage by Deleuze and Guattari (1980).

Flesh matters: The body in cognition

Embodied cognition emphasizes the importance of the body to cognition, but what is the nature of this importance? For some advocates, the body provides a computational resource within the context of a larger cognitive system. For others, the body constrains cognition, such that differently embodied organisms will differ cognitively as well. I examine these distinct conceptions of embodiment, defending the greater interest of the second. I argue as well that judgments of the body's significance in cognition do not, as contestants on both sides of the debate often insist, depend on showing the body to be a constituent in cognition.

Weaving Through Weather on a Danish Caravan Site

The aim of this article is to study embodied experiences and negotiations with everyday weather on a Danish caravan site. I present a contrast to representations of certain types of weather as something you travel away from to seek out the sun. This is done by introducing a sensuous and embodied focus to mundane weather that is also encountered on holiday. Drawing on conceptions of embodiment, the everyday and sensuous, I argue that experiences of weather are relational and multisensuous. This article has three aims. First, to nuance discourses on weather by researching people’s embodied and sensuous negotiations of weather. Second, to broaden understandings of holiday weather beyond that of sunny destinations. And third, proposing the concept of “weathering” to inform the relatively neglected role of everyday weather in tourism research. In this article, my aim is to discuss forms of somatic, sensuous, everyday routines, and movements cultivated and performed with weather.

Envisioning bodies and architectures of care: Reflections on competition designs for older people

Architects shape future dwellings and built environments in ways that are critical for aging bodies. This article explores how assumptions about aging bodies are made manifest in architectural plans and designs. By analysing entries for an international student competition Caring for Older People (2009), we illustrate the ways in which aged bodies were conceived by future architectural professionals. Through analysing the architectural plans, we can discern the students' expectations and assumptions about aging bodies and embodiment through their use of and reference to spaces, places and things. We analyse the visual and discursive strategies by which aged bodies were represented variously as frail, dependent, healthy, technologically engaged and socially situated in domestic and community settings, and also how architects inscribed ideas about care and embodiment into their proposals. Through our analysis of these data we also attend to the non-representational ways in which design and spatiality may be crucial to the fabrication of embodied practices, atmospheres and affects. We end by reflecting on how configurations and ideologies of care can be reproduced through architectural spaces, and conclude that a dialogue between architecture and sociology has the potential to transform concepts of aging, embodiment and care.