scholarly journals Headphones, Auditory Violence and the Sonic Flooding of Corporeal Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 1357034X2110243
Author(s):  
Jacob Kingsbury Downs
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Auditory Space ◽  
Auditory Experience

In this article, I develop and redirect Julian Henriques’s model of sonic dominance through examination of accounts of acoustic violence and torture involving headphones. Specifically, I show how auditory experience has been weaponized as an intracorporeal phenomenon, with headphones effecting a sense of sounds invading the interior phenomenological space of the head. By analysing reported cases of sonic violence and torture involving headphones through a composite theoretical lens drawn from the fields of music, sound and body studies, I argue that in saturating the head’s perceived interior with sound, perpetrators of violence perform sonic dominance across two interrelated levels: the subjugation of interiorized auditory space via the notion of flooding, in which attention is directed towards the experience of the body as a vessel for sound; and the resulting manipulation of phenomenological head–mind linkages, with emphasis on the head as a ‘space’ for both sound and thought.

The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo’s Representationof Egypt

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Alison G. Salvesen
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies

scholarly journals Physiologic hypoxia and oxygen homeostasis in the healthy intestine. A Review in the Theme: Cellular Responses to Hypoxia

2015 ◽  
Vol 309 (6) ◽  
pp. C350-C360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Zheng ◽  
Caleb J. Kelly ◽  
Sean P. Colgan
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Oxygenation ◽  
Hypoxia Inducible Factor ◽  
Cellular Responses ◽  
The Body ◽  
Functional Responses ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Oxygen Homeostasis ◽  
Healthy Mucosa ◽  
Countercurrent Exchange ◽  
Small And Large Intestine

In recent years, the intestinal mucosa has proven to be an intriguing organ to study tissue oxygenation. The highly vascularized lamina propria juxtaposed to an anaerobic lumen containing trillions of metabolically active microbes results in one of the most austere tissue microenvironments in the body. Studies to date have determined that a healthy mucosa contains a steep oxygen gradient along the length of the intestine and from the lumen to the serosa. Advances in technology have allowed multiple independent measures and indicate that, in the healthy mucosa of the small and large intestine, the lumen-apposed epithelia experience Po2 conditions of <10 mmHg, so-called physiologic hypoxia. This unique physiology results from a combination of factors, including countercurrent exchange blood flow, fluctuating oxygen demands, epithelial metabolism, and oxygen diffusion into the lumen. Such conditions result in the activation of a number of hypoxia-related signaling processes, including stabilization of the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor. Here, we review the principles of mucosal oxygen delivery, metabolism, and end-point functional responses that result from this unique oxygenation profile.

scholarly journals “Ava’s body is a good one”: (Dis)Embodiment in Ex Machina

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-146
Author(s):  
Jennifer Henke
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
Blue Book ◽  
Digital Network

Abstract This article discusses the role of the body in Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina (2015). It focuses on Ava’s female cyborg body against the backdrop of both classic post-humanist theories and current reflections from scholars in the field of body studies. I argue that Ex Machina addresses but also transcends questions of gender and feminism. It stresses the importance of the body for social interaction both in the virtual as well as the real world. Ava’s lack of humanity results from her mind that is derived from the digital network Blue Book in which disembodied communication dominates. Moreover, the particular construction of Nathan’s progeny demonstrates his longing for a docile sex toy since he created Ava with fully functional genitals but without morals. Ex Machina further exhibits various network metaphors both on the visual and the audio level that contribute to the (re)acknowledgement that we need a body in order to be human.

scholarly journals A EDUCAÇÃO CORPORIFICADA NO MUNDO-VIDA DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA

2021 ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Raimundo Nonato Assunção Viana ◽  
Beleni Saléte Grando
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Life World ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Present Text

O presente texto aborda compreensões sobre as práticas corporais no âmbito dos fazeres e saberesna comunidade quilombola de São José dos Pretos, localizada no município de Guimarães, no litoral ocidental do Maranhão. Tem sua centralidade nos estudos do corpo com bases fi losófi cas da Fenomenologia de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, realizando interlocuções com a Sociologia e Antropologia. Busca compreender as práticas corporais manifestadas nos fazeres e saberes construídos nos fenômenos vividos nessa comunidade como uma educação que se faz a partir do corpo, e o corpo que se faz a partir da educação.Infere-se sobre um corpo que se constrói mediado pela cultura e por esta produz conhecimentos, a educação a partir do corpo e o corpo a partir da educação.Palavras-chave: saberes e fazeres; comunidades quilombolas; educação do corpo. CORPORATIZED EDUCATION IN THE LIFE-WORLD OF THE QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA Abstract The present text addresses comprehensions about body practices in the scope of the doings and knowledges in the quilombola community of São José dos Pretos located in the municipality of Guimarães, on the western côas tof Maranhão. It is centered on body studies, with philosophical bases in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology, making interlocutions with Sociology and Anthropology. It seeks to understand the body practices manifested in the actions and knowledge built in the phenomen alived in this community as na education that is made from the body, and the body that is made from education. It is inferred that thebody is built through culture and produces knowledge through it, the education from the body and the body from education. Keywords:  knowledge and actions; quilombola communities; body education. LA EDUCACIÓN ENCARNADA EM EL MUNDO-VIDA DE LA COMUNIDAD QUILOMBOLA “SÃO JOSÉ DOS PRETOS” - GUIMARÃES - MA Resumen El presente texto aborda lãs comprensiones sobre lãs prácticas corporales em El ámbito de los haceres y saberes em La comunidad quilombola de São José dos Pretos ubicada em El municipio de Guimarães, em el litoral occidental de Maranhão. Se centra em los estúdios Del cuerpo, basados em La Fenomenología filosófica de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, estableciendo conexiones com La Sociología y La Antropología. Busca mos entender lãs prácticas corporales que se manifiestan em La sacciones y conocimientos construídos en los fenómenos vividos en esta comunidad como una educación que se hace desde El cuerpo, y El cuerpo que se hace desde La educación. Se infiere sobre um cuerpo que se construye a si mismo mediado por la cultura y produce conocimiento a través de ella, la educación basada en el cuerpo y el cuerpo basada en la educación Palabras clave: saberes y haceres; comunidades quilombolas; educación corporal.

1. Natural bodies or social bodies?

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Chris Shilling
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Entity ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Historical Developments

Social factors are important for the constitution and development of our embodied being. Yet some still consider the human body to be an exclusively biological entity. ‘Natural bodies or social bodies?’ describes the emergence, from the social sciences and humanities, of the broad interdisciplinary research area of ‘body studies’. This academic field addresses a wide variety of social and cultural issues as relevant to the inescapably bodily character of human existence. It has become a viable subject due to various social and historical developments—feminist and environmental campaigns, medical and technological developments, and the rise of consumer culture—that raised the visibility of the body as a general academic issue.

scholarly journals Sociology of the Body in Search of its Identity: Analysis of Research Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Pivovarov
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Body Studies ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The author poses the problem of the status of sociology of the body as an independent sub-discipline, putting forward the hypothesis that today this moniker only unites the spectrum of those sociological directions that are engaged in the study of separate theoretical and applied issues related to corporeality. This review allows for securing the trend towards fragmenting sociology of the body as a field of study and strengthening its status as a rubric for research, rather than a full-fledged area of sociology. In order to clarify the subject of sociology of the body and its correlation with other disciplines which study embodiment, three classifications of theories used in body studies are analyzed — philosophical, anthropological and sociological. Unlike other researchers, the author of this article considers the opposition of structuralism and interpretativism to be the most appropriate for designating opposing research programs in the sociological classification of body theories.

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