Body Studies

A New Anatomy and Physiology for Living in the Anthropocene

 

No rack can torture me,

My soul’s at liberty.

Behind this mortal bone

There knits a bolder one

 

You cannot prick with saw,

Nor rend with scymitar.

Two bodies therefore be;

Bind one, and one will flee.

 

The eagle of his nest

No easier divest

And gain the sky

Than mayest thou,

 

Except thyself may be

Thine enemy;

Captivity is consciousness,

So’s liberty.

                      ––EMILY DICKINSON

 

How we think about, study, and perceive the body is largely base on Enlightenment thinking. That may have been a good story then, a good fit for those times. It no longer serves us well, straining at the seams.

 

Here we spend only 32 hours to start to shift from reductionism and individualism

 

Some Topics:

Ubiety, the extended organism, the role of the body schema

History of the Body

 

 

 

The body is the way it is because that's how we are used to talking and writing about it. We do not have any good way to talk about the Body in its entirety. The best I can do is uppercase the word to dsitinguish the entirety from the fleshy moiety.

Richard Valasek will be in the DC area in June.  He will be availabe to teach anywhere along the way with minimal travel expenses. Contact Richard if you are interested in coordinating a class in early June.

 

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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...

 

 

Jean-Marie Benoist, 
The Geometry of the Metaphysical Poets
 
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