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My paper addresses the founding body emotions of architecture, and in particular it aims at redefining the sublime into phenomenological terms. Starting from Kant, it argues that the phenomenological sublime is a bodily-felt emotion... more
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries witnessed an explosion of Christian interest in the meaning and workings of the natural world—a "discovery of nature" that profoundly reshaped the intellectual currents and spiritual contours of... more
Arnold Schwarzenegger is at the center of multiple overlapping themes that have defined the United States over the past fifty years: immigration and the American Dream, body and gender, Hollywood and the star system, public images and... more
One of the strongest claims made by proponents of mixed martial arts (MMA) is that the confrontations are more authentic than other types of combat sports or, in the words of one promotion, ‘as real as it gets’. Since the advent of the... more
This Special Issue is the first volume in English to focus entirely on this remarkable artist.
Tiger C. Roholt explains why grooves, which are forged in music's rhythmic nuances, remain hidden to some listeners. He argues that grooves are not graspable through the intellect nor through mere listening; rather, grooves are disclosed... more
This article discusses the acquisition of a physical impairment/disability through voluntary body modification, or transability. From the perspectives of critical genealogy and feminist intersectional analysis, the article considers the... more
"The anatomical body is a body double—the essay calls it a mirror that first anatomists, and later a larger public, peered into. Anatomical illustration and display required collaboration between art and science, and eventually became the... more
In this chapter, I draw on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to explore environmental embodiment—the various lived ways, sensorily and motility-wise, that the body in its pre-reflective perceptual presence engages and synchronizes with the world... more
This paper explores the importance of Kendrick Lamar in the entertainment industry, in hip-hop and in American History. The essence of this paper explores his celebrity black body in relation to history, identity and his contribution to... more
Feminist theory of the body as a collection of literatures is a complex tapestry of interwoven thought traditions rather than a monolithic, linear analytical thread. Dominant Western intellectual tradition regards the body suspiciously as... more
ABSTRACT This research, situated at the junction of feminist, trans and disability studies, examines the limits of intersectional feminist analyses and the difficulties faced in their consideration of gender identity and ability through... more
This article considers the emergence of the nude in European art 1400-1600. It explains social understandings of nakedness and how this is affected by class, gender and age; and draws a distinction between the "academic" and "erotic"... more
In this paper, my aim is to elaborate disability movement praxis so that transnational struggles for justice over the production of impairment emerging from the Global South can be represented within the transnational frame of disability... more
The intention of this special thematic issue of InterAlia is to problematize the notion of a healthy, (re)productive, desirable body through the lenses of queer and crip theory.
Sewing Reality: Fashion in Non-fiction Media University of Bedfordshire, Luton Campus, UK 9th June 2018 As two distinct art forms, fashion and film have flirted with each other in symbiotic relationships since the dawn of the medium:... more
This study will highlight how rhetorical devices and stylistic techniques are employed both in the novel Pride and Prejudice and in its 2005 film adaptation to transform and mitigate the destabilizing power of passion. The use of tropes,... more
This is the brochure for the April 2018 conference “Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms: Italian Interventions on the Body” organized by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, City University of New York.... more
RESUMO-O Corpo-Arquivo em TRANS (Més enllà) de Didier Ruiz-Este artigo analisa o espetáculo TRANS (Més enllà) de Didier Ruiz, que toma como objeto depoimentos de pessoas trans. Qual é o papel da presença do corpo no testemunho? O teatro... more
L’angle d’approche choisi pour le présent ouvrage surprendra peut-être les amateurs de l’œuvre de Giono. On s’attend en effet à ce que le motif des cosmétiques soit d’une importance mineure dans un univers romanesque d’abord ancré en... more
ABSTRACT In the article, we make an attempt at discussing what it means that our reality is commodified, what the consequences of this are, how we commodify our bodies and what role in this process is played by cyborgization, as well as... more
The effects of activities about knowing our body unit to students 'success, scientific process skills, attitudes Vücudumuzu tanıyalım ünitesinde alternetif etkinliklerin öğrencilerin başarılarına, bilimsel süreç becerilerine, tutumlarına... more
Photos by Elie Posner @ The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
This book is the translation of L'Instrumentalisation du corps. (Body Instrumentalisation) initially published by L'harmattan in 1997 and now in Brazil in 2018 with a very important postface titled : Opus ex machina: The diminished man.... more
This article is the outcome of the discussion ocurred during the 4th Encounter of Researchers from PostGraduate Programs in Visual-Arts of Rio de Janeiro State. It is about the presence of the fat body as a support in the project of the... more
Knowledge of the spatial layout of bodies is mediated by a representation called the body structural description, damage to which results in the condition of autotopagnosia in which patients are impaired in judgments about the location... more
Yann Marussich, gives us a new gaze of the body as politic performance
for a projectual riconfiguration of our dreams, of our imaginary, of
our behaviors and collective sensitivity.
for a projectual riconfiguration of our dreams, of our imaginary, of
our behaviors and collective sensitivity.
De la naissance à la mort, nous habitons notre corps, qui est un révélateur de ce que nous sommes. Dans nos sociétés développées, et surtout depuis la libération sexuelle, il est devenu pour beaucoup d’entre nous une préoccupation... more
This construction of an environment, and the presence of the human body operating as an occupant of the demarcated space produces a dynamic relationship across Carolee Schneemann's Four Fur Cutting Boards (1962-63) and her photographed... more
A thorough analysis of capital punishment from a political-geographical perspective is lacking in the discipline of geography. This is despite the fact that capital punishment overlaps with numerous geographic approaches, concepts, and... more
Fantasy genre fiction has increasingly received academic attention for its representations of gender and sexuality, and scholars have acknowledged that the genre has the potential to challenge accepted ideas about femininity and... more
This theoretical article presents and applies the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The article takes as its starting point the observation that current biomedical, social and psychological research does not provide a... more
Th is research report presents the results of a PhD project, exploring the body and contemporary body work practices (Coffey 2012a). Body work can be understood as any practices aimed to modify or maintain the body’s appearance, including... more
Este artículo presenta una perspectiva epistemológica del diseño gráfico a partir de una concepción ampliada del concepto de visualidad. En lugar de considerar la visión como un hecho cognitivo y la visualidad como la condición de... more
Richard Shusterman é professor de Filosofia na Florida Atlantic University. Sua filosofia é fortemente influenciada pela obra de William James e John Dewey e o estudo desses autores, somados à sua experiência com Educação Somática e... more
Designing for women's healthcare remains an underexplored area of HCI, particularly outside informational systems for maternal health. Drawing on a case study of a body disruption-urinary incontinence in women-we illustrate the experience... more
In her essay Throwing like a Girl Iris Young describes differences between women and men in bodily activities, especially such that involve the whole body using strength to accomplishing a task. She focusses on modalities of female bodily... more
Discusses the concepts of female agency and subjectivities in film and television through cases in the last decade, investigating emerging notions in the field and introducing original research Focuses on how the politics of gender are... more