The Culture Of Corporeality

Author : Karin Sellberg,Lena Wånggren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317159247

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Corporeality and Culture by Karin Sellberg,Lena Wånggren Pdf

The ’material turn’ in critical theory - and particularly the turn towards the body coupled with scientific insights from biomedicine, biology and physics - is becoming an important path in fields of humanities-based scholarly inquiry. Material and technological philosophies play an increasingly central role in disciplines such as literary studies, cultural studies, history, performance and aesthetics, to name only a few. This edited collection of essays investigates how the material turn finds applications within humanities-based frameworks - focusing on practical reflections and disciplinary responses. It takes as its critical premise the understanding that importation of theoretical viewpoints is never straightforward; rather, a complex, sometimes even fraught, communication takes place between these disciplines at the imperceptible lines where praxis and theory meet, transforming both the landscape of practical engagement and the models of material theory. Presenting a multi- and interdisciplinary consideration of current research on the cultural relationship to living (and non-living) bodies, Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement puts the body in focus. From performance and body modification to film, literature and other cultural technologies, this volume undertakes a significant speculative mapping of the current possibilities for engagement, transformation and variance of embodied movement in relation to scientifically-situated corporealities and materialities in cultural and artistic practices. Time and time again, it finds these ever-shifting modes of being to be inextricably interdependent and coextensive: movement requires embodiment; and embodiment is a form of movement.

Author : Dr Karin Sellberg,Dr Lena Wånggren,Dr Kamillea Aghtan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472421272

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Corporeality and Culture by Dr Karin Sellberg,Dr Lena Wånggren,Dr Kamillea Aghtan Pdf

Presenting a multi- and interdisciplinary consideration of current research on the cultural relationship to living (and non-living) bodies, Corporeality and Culture puts the body in focus. From performance and body modification to film, literature and other cultural technologies, this volume undertakes a significant speculative mapping of the current possibilities for engagement, transformation and variance of embodied movement in relation to scientifically-situated corporealities and materialities in cultural and artistic practices. Time and time again, it finds these ever-shifting modes of being to be inextricably interdependent and coextensive: movement requires embodiment; and embodiment is a form of movement.

Author : Karin Sellberg,Lena Wånggren,Kamillea Aghtan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human body
ISBN : 1315574365

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Corporeality and Culture by Karin Sellberg,Lena Wånggren,Kamillea Aghtan Pdf

Author : Stefan Leonhard Brandt
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129827346

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The Culture of Corporeality by Stefan Leonhard Brandt Pdf

The Culture of Corporeality outlines a cultural history of the body in the American postwar years (1945-1960), based on contemporary critical theory and exemplified by a variety of films, literary works, and other documents. The book argues that the body, as a cultural, symbolic, and >lived

Author : Francisco Ortega
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135143190

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Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture by Francisco Ortega Pdf

"Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body. On the one hand, the body is where we turn for the certainties of nature; yet, on the other, it is the locus of a desire for permanent transformation and for constant reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised: so that now it has come to constitute not just an object of desire, but an object of design. Addressing practices of corporeal ascesis- such as bodybuilding and dietetics - medical technologies - such as plastic surgery, prosthetics, and pharmacological interventions - and radical anatomical modifications- such as voluntary amputations, Francisco Ortega analyses how the body has become a screen for the projection of our ideas and imaginings about ourselves; and has also been turned into an object of suspicion, fear, anxiety, insecurity and discomfort. From the disembodied ideal of the digital purity of models - in which every little piece of fat is digitally eliminated - through the disembodiment implicit in social constructivist rejections of materiality, to the various projects of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and posthumanism, Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture documents the ambiguous legacy of a western theoretical tradition that has always despised the body"--

Author : Fran Martin,Ari Larissa Heinrich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824829636

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Embodied Modernities by Fran Martin,Ari Larissa Heinrich Pdf

From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive referent for the "Chinese body" is thornier than ever. By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices. The book is divided into two sections, each with a dedicated introduction by the editors. The first examines "Thresholds of Modernity" in chapters on Chinese body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a period of intensive cultural, political, and social modernization that led to a series of radical transformations in how bodies were understood and represented.The second section on "Contemporary Embodiments" explores body representations across the People’s Republic of China,Taiwan, and Hong Kong today. Contributors: Chris Berry, Louise Edwards, Maram Epstein, Larissa Heinrich, Olivia Khoo, Fran Martin, Jami Proctor-Xu, Tze-lan D. Sang, Teri Silvio, Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu, Angela Zito, John Zou.

Author : Gabriele Brandstetter,Gerko Egert,Holger Hartung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351128445

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Movements of Interweaving by Gabriele Brandstetter,Gerko Egert,Holger Hartung Pdf

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.

Author : Erec R. Koch
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0874130107

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The Aesthetic Body by Erec R. Koch Pdf

Those two developments converge to construct an aesthetic body; that is, in its full etymological sense, a body whose principal functions are the production of sensation and affectivity. This study examines the importance of the body in the determination of sensibility and passion in French culture of the seventeenth century." "The Aesthetic Body will engage readers with interests in literature, philosophy, the history of ideas, the history of science and medicine, cultural history, and political theory of the French early modem period."--Jacket.

Author : Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Soraya Tremayne
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857451231

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Fatness and the Maternal Body by Maya Unnithan-Kumar,Soraya Tremayne Pdf

Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness, reproduction and what is considered 'natural'. A focus on fatness in the context of human reproduction and motherhood offers instructive insights into the global circulation and authority of biomedical facts on fatness (as 'risky' anti-fit, for example). As with other social and cultural studies critical of health policy discourse, this volume challenges the spontaneous connection being made in scientific and popular understanding between fatness and ill health.

Author : Rosalyn Diprose
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791488843

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Corporeal Generosity by Rosalyn Diprose Pdf

Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

Author : Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054558

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Corporeal Politics by Katherine Mezur,Emily Wilcox Pdf

In Corporeal Politics, leading international scholars investigate the development of dance as a deeply meaningful and complex cultural practice across time, placing special focus on the intertwining of East Asia dance and politics and the role of dance as a medium of transcultural interaction and communication across borders. Countering common narratives of dance history that emphasize the US and Europe as centers of origin and innovation, the expansive creativity of dance artists in East Asia asserts its importance as a site of critical theorization and reflection on global artistic developments in the performing arts. Through the lens of “corporeal politics”—the close attention to bodily acts in specific cultural contexts—each study in this book challenges existing dance and theater histories to re-investigate the performer's role in devising the politics and aesthetics of their performance, as well as the multidimensional impact of their lives and artistic works. Corporeal Politics addresses a wide range of performance styles and genres, including dances produced for the concert stage, as well as those presented in popular entertainments, private performance spaces, and street protests.

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 331996206X

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Corporeal Legacies in the US South by Christopher Lloyd Pdf

This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings of cultural memory in the present. Drawing on the fields of Southern Studies, Memory Studies and Black Studies, the book also engages psychoanalysis, Animal Studies and posthumanism to revitalize questions of the racialized body. Lloyd traces corporeal legacies in the US South through novels by Jesmyn Ward, Kathryn Stockett and others, alongside film and television such as Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Walking Dead. In all, the book explores the ways in which bodies in contemporary southern culture bear the traces of racial regulation and injury.

Author : Joseph Fracchia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004471597

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Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.) by Joseph Fracchia Pdf

In an offhand, never systematically elaborated comment Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact for the study of human history’. This book explores the implications of Marx’s radically corporeal insight for historical-materialist analysis of socio-economic and cultural forms.

Author : Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253033666

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Corporeality in Early Cinema by Marina Dahlquist,Doron Galili,Jan Olsson,Valentine Robert Pdf

Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

Author : Elena Faccio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461456803

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The Corporeal Identity by Elena Faccio Pdf

Explorees the cultural origins and psychological aspects of body identity disorders. Discusses the influence of contemporary virtual and cyberspace imagery on self-image. Draws on author’s professional experience largely dedicated to exploring disorders wherein body identity is the chosen field for communication and exchange. Re-examines such illnesses as anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphic disorder, and others