Coming in November, Ipswich QSD Australia:
PHASE 5
As If
Body Schema
Hauntology
Reciprocity
Trauma-Informed Care
Antigonish
Yesterday, upon the
stair,
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away!
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away....
William Hughes Mearns
Phases are different perspectives, different ways of looking at the body/person.
When shall we open our minds to the conviction that the ultimate reality of the world
is neither matter nor spirit, is no definite thing, but a perspective?"
--José Ortega y Gasset
"My wife and my mother-in-law" W.E. Hill. 1915
You can always come up with other ways of looking at things. That's what the Phases gives us, different ways to approach the Body, different portals, different perspectives.
The Body Schema
Body Image is your conscious perseption of your body. But underneath your awareness, your brain keeps an operational map of your entire body: its position, its pressure, its boundaries, its threat level; this map is called your Body Schema.
Hauntology
(not Ontology)
The word was coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. In French the word sounds exactly like ontology, the study of being, existence, and reality. The pun is fully intended. Hautology looks at "things" that are there and not there, having a spectral existence. It is an "as if" kind of being. This has much to do with how the Body Schema functions.
Flaneur (Out for a Stroll)
Contact
Richard Valasek 1308 Ala Kapuna St. Apt 103
Honolulu HI 9681
+1 (808) 256-1646
richard.valasek@gmail.com
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I am I and my circumstance;
and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself. —JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
Changing the Conversation
I was born. I am always a vessel for something other than myself. The self is only a
vehicle for Foreign matter which comes from elsewhere and is destined to go on
elsewhere without me, whether it's words, smells, vision ––EMANUELE COCCIA Metamorphoses
The Story Teller
Now, more than ever . . . our place in the universe and the place of the universe in us, is proving to be one of active relationship. That is more than a scientist's credo. The separateness of our lives is a sham. Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, my politics, clocks diurnal, time perpetual, the roll, rough, tender, swamping, liberating, breathing, moving, thinking nature, human nature and the cosmos are patterned together.
—JEANETTE WINTERSON Gut Symmetries
What you do, what you become, is not my concern. –ROBERT MCCALL
Yes, there is beauty
There is love
There is joy.
All you who suffer from
the world's miseries
Defend them.
––EEVA KILPI
"Don't immanentize the eschaton."
––ERIC VOEGELIN
For the god of writing is also the god of death. He will punish the imprudent who, in their quest for unlimited knowledge, end up drinking the dissolved book.…To drink the tear and wonder about the strangeness of its taste compared to one's own...
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