This article aims to examine the differences between the understanding of Descartes in Sport Philosophy and General Philosophy, and to note the attitude to Descartes Philosophy in Korean sport studies in order to understand why the research of Descartes Philosophy was stopped in Korean sport studies. The theory of mind-body dualism was perceived as a wrong theory in philosophy of sport because it was thought to hinder the academic legitimacy of sport studies. Descartes’ dualistic body theory, in particular, has been recognized as a philosophy that hinders the development of sport studies over the past 40 years or so. Philosophy in sport has long been a perception that Descartes is not a hopeful philosophy in sport studies because he denies the body. The fixed judgment on the philosophy of Descartes was converted to the value judgement of Descartes philosophy, leading to the discontinuation of the study of Descartes philosophy. However, contrary to the circumstances of Korean sport philosophy, Cartesian philosophy in modern philosophy has been constantly studied to the extent that it forms an independent field. Especially since Cartesian mechanics can function as a basis for understanding the philosophical foundations of sports (natural) science, researches on Descartes need to be resumed as a bridge for resolving misunderstandings about Descartes and understanding sport studies.

Body theory is the work of historians, sociologists, philosophers, and other scholars in the past twenty to twenty-five years that explicitly focuses on the body, especially on sexuality and gender. The body is seen as an ideological surface on which history and politics inscribe their truths. It is, in short, a corporeal epistemology standing in opposition to all the old cognitive epistemologies (e.g., Descartes, Locke, and modern analytic thought as a whole). Régimes of power are known through the way they oppress, manipulate, and construct the human body. Body theory includes the work of Michel Foucault, Thomas Laquer, and feminist scholars such as Hélène Cixous, Laura Mulvey, and Elaine Showalter. This work is carried on, by and large, in the methodological atmosphere of a constructivist notion of gender, sexuality, social ideas, and the self.

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Derrida on Pornography: Putting (It) Up for Sale

Derrida Today ◽

10.3366/drt.2013.0054 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 97-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christopher Morris

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

English Translation ◽

The Body ◽

The Past ◽

French Original ◽

Definition Of ◽

Critical Discourses ◽

Academic Debate

Over the past thirty years, academic debate over pornography in the discourses of feminism and cultural studies has foundered on questions of the performative and of the word's definition. In the polylogue of Droit de regards, pornography is defined as la mise en vente that is taking place in the act of exegesis in progress. (Wills's idiomatic English translation includes an ‘it’ that is absent in the French original). The definition in Droit de regards alludes to the word's etymology (writing by or about prostitutes) but leaves the referent of the ‘sale’ suspended. Pornography as la mise en vente boldly restates the necessary iterability of the sign and anticipates two of Derrida's late arguments: that there is no ‘the’ body and that performatives may be powerless. Deriving a definition of pornography from a truncated etymology exemplifies the prosthesis of origin and challenges other critical discourses to explain how pornography can be understood as anything more than ‘putting (it) up for sale’.

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Receptions of the Past: Commemoration, Racism, Desire

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2017.0223 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 288-303

Author(s):

Michael Connors Jackman

Keyword(s):

Critical Point ◽

Social Relations ◽

White Privilege ◽

Body Politic ◽

The Body ◽

Race And Racism ◽

Lesbian And Gay ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

This article investigates the ways in which the work of The Body Politic (TBP), the first major lesbian and gay newspaper in Canada, comes to be commemorated in queer publics and how it figures in the memories of those who were involved in producing the paper. In revisiting a critical point in the history of TBP from 1985 when controversy erupted over race and racism within the editorial collective, this discussion considers the role of memory in the reproduction of whiteness and in the rupture of standard narratives about the past. As the controversy continues to haunt contemporary queer activism in Canada, the productive work of memory must be considered an essential aspect of how, when and for what reasons the work of TBP comes to be commemorated. By revisiting the events of 1985 and by sifting through interviews with individuals who contributed to the work of TBP, this article complicates the narrative of TBP as a bluntly racist endeavour whilst questioning the white privilege and racially-charged demands that undergird its commemoration. The work of producing and preserving queer history is a vital means of challenging the intentional and strategic erasure of queer existence, but those who engage in such efforts must remain attentive to the unequal terrain of social relations within which remembering forms its objects.

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Body and Desire

10.1525/california/9780520297968.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Raphael A. Cadenhead

Keyword(s):

Full Range ◽

The Body ◽

Gregory Of Nyssa ◽

The Past ◽

Ethical Discourse ◽

Sex And Sexuality ◽

Diachronic Analysis

Although the reception of the Eastern father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought, particularly in relation to the contentious issues of gender, sex, and sexuality. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life through a diachronic analysis of his oeuvre. Exploring his understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation in the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

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A body without a head

Body and Religion ◽

10.1558/bar.17782 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ali Chavoshian ◽

Sophia Park

Keyword(s):

Liberation Theology ◽

The Body ◽

Women's Spirituality ◽

Passive Condition ◽

Sexual Identities ◽

Logical Square ◽

The Social ◽

Feminine Sexuality ◽

Body Shapes ◽

Body Theory

Along with the recent development of various theories of the body, Lacan’s body theory aligns with postmodern thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Maurice Merlot-Ponti, who consider body social not biological. Lacan emphasizes the body of the Real, the passive condition of the body in terms of formation, identity, and understanding. Then, this condition of body shapes further in the condition of bodies of women and laborers under patriarchy and capitalism, respectively. Lacan’s ‘not all’ position, which comes from the logical square, allows women to question patriarchy’s system and alternatives of sexual identities. Lacan’s approach to feminine sexuality can be applied to women’s spirituality, emphasizing multiple narratives of body and sexual identities, including gender roles. In the social discernment and analysis in the liberation theology, we can employ the capitalist discourse, which provides a tool to understand how people are manipulated by late capitalist society, not knowing it. Lacan’s theory of ‘a body without a head’ reflects the current condition of the human body, which manifests lack, yet including some possibilities for transforming society.

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Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of stress

Communication & Medicine ◽

10.1558/cam.v10i1.81 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 81-93

Author(s):

Laurel Smith Stvan

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Stress ◽

American English ◽

Physical Symptom ◽

The Body ◽

Post Traumatic Stress ◽

The Past ◽

Academic Texts ◽

Naturally Occurring ◽

Post Traumatic ◽

Semantic Shift

Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances of stress from non-academic texts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH) shows a negative prosody for stress, which is portrayed variously as a source outside the body, a physical symptom within the body and an emotional state. The data show that contemporary speakers intermingle the three senses, making more difficult a discussion between doctors and patients of ways to ‘reduce stress’, when stress might be interpreted as a stressor, a symptom, or state of anxiety. This conflation of senses reinforces the impression that stress is pervasive and increasing. In addition, a semantic shift is also refining a new sense for stress, as post-traumatic stress develops as a specific subtype of emotional stress whose use has increased in circulation in the past 20 years.

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Differenzierungen im Begriff, Gegenwart‘ bei Husserl und Merleau-Ponty

Phänomenologische Forschungen ◽

10.28937/1000107747 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (1) ◽

pp. 39-54

Author(s):

Jörg Zimmer

Keyword(s):

Modern Philosophy ◽

The Body ◽

Fundamental Concept ◽

Phenomenological Description ◽

Philosophy Of Time ◽

Phenomenology Of Perception ◽

The World ◽

Classical Philosophy ◽

The Moment ◽

Empty Time

In classical philosophy of time, present time mainly has been considered in its fleetingness: it is transition, in the Platonic meaning of the sudden or in the Aristotelian sense of discreet moment and isolated intensity that escapes possible perception. Through the idea of subjective constitution of time, Husserl’s phenomenology tries to spread the moment. He transcends the idea of linear and empty time in modern philosophy. Phenomenological description of time experience analyses the filled character of the moment that can be detained in the performance of consciousness. As a consequence of the temporality of consciousness, he nevertheless remains in the temporal conception of presence. The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, however, is able to grasp the spacial meaning of presence. In his perspective of a phenomenology of perception, presence can be understood as a space surrounding the body, as a field of present things given in perception. Merleau-Ponty recovers the ancient sense of ‘praesentia’ as a fundamental concept of being in the world.

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Epithelial Protein Lost in Neoplasm, EPLIN, the Cellular and Molecular Prospects in Cancers

Biomolecules ◽

10.3390/biom11071038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 1038

Author(s):

Jianyuan Zeng ◽

Wen G. Jiang ◽

Andrew J. Sanders

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Early Years ◽

Actin Binding ◽

Cell Cycle Gene ◽

Lim Domain ◽

The Past ◽

Concise Review ◽

Cancerous Cell ◽

Cytoskeletal Dynamics ◽

In Cells

Epithelial Protein Lost In Neoplasm (EPLIN), also known as LIMA1 (LIM Domain And Actin Binding 1), was first discovered as a protein differentially expressed in normal and cancerous cell lines. It is now known to be key to the progression and metastasis of certain solid tumours. Despite a slow pace in understanding the biological role in cells and body systems, as well as its clinical implications in the early years since its discovery, recent years have witnessed a rapid progress in understanding the mechanisms of this protein in cells, diseases and indeed the body. EPLIN has drawn more attention over the past few years with its roles expanding from cell migration and cytoskeletal dynamics, to cell cycle, gene regulation, angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis and lipid metabolism. This concise review summarises and discusses the recent progress in understanding EPLIN in biological processes and its implications in cancer.

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Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of Vélo worlds

European Journal of Social Theory ◽

10.1177/1368431021996642 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136843102199664

Author(s):

Chris Shilling

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Cultural Transmission ◽

The Body ◽

Knowing How ◽

Significant Growth ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Cognitive Information ◽

Sociological Studies ◽

Ways Of Life

During the past two decades, there has been a significant growth of sociological studies into the ‘body pedagogics’ of cultural transmission, reproduction and change. Rejecting the tendency to over-valorise cognitive information, these investigations have explored the importance of corporeal capacities, habits and techniques in the processes associated with belonging to specific ‘ways of life’. Focused on practical issues associated with ‘knowing how’ to operate within specific cultures, however, body pedagogic analyses have been less effective at accounting for the incarnation of cultural values. Addressing this limitation, with reference to the radically diverse norms involved historically and contemporarily in ‘vélo worlds’, I develop Dewey’s pragmatist transactionalism by arguing that the social, material and intellectual processes involved in learning physical techniques inevitably entail a concurrent entanglement with, and development of, values.

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Design and Marker-Based Validation of a Biplane Fluoroscopy System for Studying the Foot and Ankle

ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Parts A and B ◽

10.1115/sbc2012-80906 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph M. Iaquinto ◽

Richard Tsai ◽

Michael J. Fassbind ◽

David R. Haynor ◽

Bruce J. Sangeorzan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Precise Measurement ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

The Body ◽

Initial Evaluation ◽

Foot And Ankle ◽

Research Groups ◽

The Past ◽

Model Based ◽

Biplane Fluoroscopy ◽

Model Based Analysis

The ability to accurately measure three dimensional (3D) bone kinematics is key to understanding the motion of the joints of the body, and how such motion is altered by injury, disease, and treatment. Precise measurement of such kinematics is technically challenging. Biplane fluoroscopy is ideally suited to measure bone motion. Such systems have been developed in the past for both radiographic stereo-photogrammetric analysis (RSA) [1] and the more challenging model-based analysis [2]. Research groups have studied the knee [3,4], shoulder [5] and ankle [6] motion with similar techniques. The work presented here is an initial evaluation of the performance of our system, i.e., a validation that this in-house system can detect magnitudes of motion on-par with other existing systems.

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