scholarly journals Motricidade (pós)humana e a abordagem sobre o corpo na era da simulação

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Gisele Maria Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environment ◽  
The Body ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Education Professional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
The Way ◽  
Recreation Education

ResumoO prisma das mudanças impressas pelas eras digital e pós-digital é imenso e infindável, porém, a magnitude de envolvimento com as tecnologias depende do modo como se tem acesso às informações e dos arranjos sociais deflagrados pela necessidade de adaptação aos novos paradigmas. Entretanto, nem sempre, esses avanços foram pautados apenas nas necessidades humanas de resolver algum tipo de problema. Em algum momento e de alguma forma, percebe-se que a fonte de inspiração para a materialização desses recursos extrapola o âmbito da necessidade e se estabelece nas esferas do desejo e do prazer. Pensar como o Profissional da área de Motricidade Humana se insere neste contexto e se apropria dos recursos digitais para atualizar e dinamizar sua prática, representou o desafio deste ensaio, haja vista que esta relação ainda causa estranheza e necessita mais aprofundamento.Palavras-chave: Motricidade Humana. Ambiente Virtual. Lazer. Educação. Formação Profissional.(Post) human motricity and the body approach in the age of simulationAbstractThe prism of the changes printed by digital and post-digital ages is immense and endless, but the magnitude of involvement with technologies depends on the way information is accessed and the social arrangements triggered by the need to adapt to new paradigms. However, not always, these advances were based only on human needs to solve some kind of problem. At some point and in some way, it can be seen that the source of inspiration for the materialization of these resources goes beyond the realm of necessity and is established in the spheres of desire and pleasure. Thinking how Human Motricity Professional fits into this context and appropriates digital resources to update and streamline their practice, represented the challenge of this essay, given that this relationship still causes strangeness and needs further study.Keywords: Human Motricity. Virtual environment. Recreation. Education. Professional qualification.La motricidad (post)humana y el enfoque del cuerpo en la era de la simulaciónResumenEl prisma de los cambios impresos por la era digital y post-digital es inmenso e interminable, pero la magnitud de la participación con las tecnologías depende de la forma en que se accede a la información y los arreglos sociales provocados por la necesidad de adaptarse a nuevos paradigmas. Sin embargo, no siempre, estos avances se basaron solo en las necesidades humanas para resolver algún tipo de problema. En algún momento y de alguna manera, se puede ver que la fuente de inspiración para la materialización de estos recursos va más allá del ámbito de la necesidad y se establece en las esferas del deseo y el placer. Pensar cómo el Profesional de la Motricidad Humana encaja en este contexto y se apropia de los recursos digitales para actualizar y racionalizar su práctica, representó el desafío de este ensayo, dado que esta relación todavía causa extrañeza y necesita más estudio.Palabras clave: Motricidad humana. Entorno virtual Ocio Educación. Formación profesional.

scholarly journals The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Skye
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Major Site ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Walking Dead

<p>The zombie is a significant cultural figure which is represented and produced as being symptomatic of and relevant to contemporary concerns about death and dehumanization. This thesis will focus on the ways that death and dehumanization are changing and being negotiated within popular cultural representations and discourses regarding zombies, particularly in Frank Darabont’s television series The Walking Dead. The thesis will consider the way in which the figure of the zombie is representative of issues and discourses that are indicative of a problematization of the category of the human, and the notion of the transcendental. This will involve an examination of the changing narratives of the body, with particular regard to consumerism and the insistence of the body as a major site of the truth and value of the self, in contrast to the horrifying bodily form of the zombie. The thesis will also examine the way that dehumanization is problematized in The Walking Dead, where the human/non-human distinction is shown to be increasingly precarious and difficult to sustain. Further, the thesis will examine how the zombie is represented as manifesting the collapse of identity, as agents become alienated from the social discourses, narratives and values which constitute and categorize the subject.</p>

Solitude and Meditation

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-161
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bommarito
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Meditative Practices ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes the role of solitude and meditation in Buddhism. Solitude does play an important role in many Buddhist practices. The problem one is out to solve is very difficult and the intellectual, perceptual, and emotional habits that stand in the way are deep-seated. This means that attacking the problem requires focused time and energy. Establishing some distance from the diversions and pace of life allows the space to confront the problem in a sustained way. Many practices involve not only sustained focus, but also a greater degree of perceptual sensitivity to what is happening in the body and mind. It is not just being away from distractions that helps, but being away from the demands of the social world. Buddhists, particularly those who specialize in meditative practices, can take retreats that last for years. For those just starting out, such long periods of solitude can be dangerous. There is a reason that solitary confinement can be traumatic: Being suddenly alone for long stretches without preparation is psychologically risky.

Trajectories of embodiment in Tourist Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879762199030
Author(s):  
Phoebe Everingham ◽  
Pau Obrador ◽  
Hazel Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
The Way

In this article we map the 20 year trajectory of theorising embodiment in Tourist Studies. From its inception in 2001, embedded within the turn in the social sciences towards embodiment, Tourist Studies has paved the way in pushing the boundaries of theorising the links between embodiment, sensuality and performativity. Tourist Studies has opened up novel trajectories in tourism research away from the traditional focus on vision, towards multi-sensual analysis including the role of taste, smell, touch and sound. In this article we draw attention to these important contributions in understanding the body-practices and body-subjects within tourism, including work that utilises non-representational analyses, relational materiality, affect, more-than-representational and more-than-human. About 20 years on we remind readers of what theorising embodiment can bring to understanding encounters in tourism spaces, and specifically how attention to embodiment moves analysis away from fixed and static notions of culture and power, towards dynamic interplays between bodies and more-than-human modalities.

scholarly journals The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Victoria Skye
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Major Site ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Walking Dead

<p>The zombie is a significant cultural figure which is represented and produced as being symptomatic of and relevant to contemporary concerns about death and dehumanization. This thesis will focus on the ways that death and dehumanization are changing and being negotiated within popular cultural representations and discourses regarding zombies, particularly in Frank Darabont’s television series The Walking Dead. The thesis will consider the way in which the figure of the zombie is representative of issues and discourses that are indicative of a problematization of the category of the human, and the notion of the transcendental. This will involve an examination of the changing narratives of the body, with particular regard to consumerism and the insistence of the body as a major site of the truth and value of the self, in contrast to the horrifying bodily form of the zombie. The thesis will also examine the way that dehumanization is problematized in The Walking Dead, where the human/non-human distinction is shown to be increasingly precarious and difficult to sustain. Further, the thesis will examine how the zombie is represented as manifesting the collapse of identity, as agents become alienated from the social discourses, narratives and values which constitute and categorize the subject.</p>

scholarly journals Beyond the Veil. A Comparative Study between France and India

2020 ◽  
Vol Varia (Articles) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Lécuyer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
North India ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Veil ◽  
The Way

International audience The ghunghat is a veiling practice of North India. Its peculiarity holds in the fact that it is not linked to a religion. It reveals the social and family organisation in India, is tightly linked with marriage practices and mirrors the representations of the self and of the body. An anthropological analysis of this practice reveals its multiple dimensions, especially a social, aesthetic and sacred dimension. A comparative study between the way the veil is conceived both in India and in France will allow to rethink the veil beyond the religious and political dimensions in which it is crystalized in the French context. Le ghunghat est un voile du Nord  de  l’Inde. Il a pour particularité d’être non confessionnel. Son lien est étroit avec les systèmes de parenté, d’alliance, d’organisation familiale d’Inde du Nord, et reflète les systèmes de représentations et de constructions du corps. Une analyse anthropologique de ce voile fait ressortir ses dimensions sociales, esthétiques, et son lien au sacré. Le voile en tant qu’objet polysémique doit être repensé selon une perspective comparative qui permet de sortir des cristallisations autour des seules dimensions religieuses et politiques dans lesquelles le voile a été enfermé dans le contexte socio-politique français.

scholarly journals The Concept of Identity in the Technological Era

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Razec ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way ◽  
Effective History

We are currently witnessing a process of redefinition of the social structures that we are part of, through the new technologies, which are gradually entering all sectors of our lives, influencing the way we think, live, and relate to others. Since man is essentially a “political animal”, designed to evolve within a community, what impact will the digitalization era have on his behavior, especially when the physical limits imposed by the body are progressively disappearing? The objective of this study is to explore some of the subtle, but sure transformations of human behavior in the technological era, with a particular emphasis on the process of communication, personal feelings, and identity. In a more connected world than ever, where absolutely everything can be quantified, physical reality is in danger of being replaced by the virtual one. In this dynamic, the body could gradually become the only real impediment on the way to progress. Engaged in this alert race, we risk being dehumanized, in an attempt to be as similar as possible to the machines, which, undisturbed by the feelings, experiences, and behavioral predispositions specific to the human being, operate more accurately and are more effective. History shows that man essentially remains the same, with each age illustrating another facet of him. This is why, a thorough education from an early age is needed both in terms of the consequences of digitization and the means to cope with it, thus preventing us from distorting our essence.

scholarly journals Sociology of the Body—Teaching Embodied Approach through Autoethnography

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek ◽  
Honorata Jakubowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Methodological Development ◽  
Teaching Sociology ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article presents and discusses the way of teaching sociology of the body whose aim is to allow students to become familiar with embodied methodology and make them methodologically sensitive. The research tasks given to the students are based on analytic autoethnography which influences the students’ methodological development. Examples of the students’ works are presented and discussed, particularly in terms of the advantages they might bring in the educational proces and difficulties that they may cause to both the student and the teacher. As the most valuable benefits deriving from this way of teaching the authors indicate: raising methodological sensitivity, the ability to link embodied experience and knowledge with theoretical concepts, self-understanding in terms of social processes, but also putting into practice the perspective of embodiment in the social sciences. The courses of the sociology of the body in Poland and their status at Polish universities are presented as the context. The authors claim that the skills learnt during this course are crucial for students of sociology and for their methodological competencies, not only in the field of sociology of the body.

scholarly journals Becoming an Embodied Social Self Capable of Relating to Norms: Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity Reconsidered in the Light of Enactivism

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Annemie Halsema
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I argue for a revaluation of Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity in light of what Miriam Kyselo has coined “the body-social problem” in enactivism (Kyselo 2014). It is my contention that while phenomenological perspectives upon the body and the self are considered relevant in enactivism, the hermeneutical, discursive facets are understood as a less essential facet of the self, for instance as the self’s reflexive side, that gives expression to an experiential self (Zahavi 2007: 182-184, 2014: 57-59). Yet, it is in language that the self is addressed by others and that the self reflects upon itself and understands itself. Especially in order to understand aspects of identity which are of importance for the social situation of the self, such as gender, the way we are addressed by others and address ourselves by means of language need to be taken into account.

scholarly journals O corpo como imaginário da cidade

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Euler David de Siqueira ◽  
Denise Da Costa Oliveira Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Na constituição dos imaginários urbanos, cidade e corpo se comunicam, veiculam mensagens e jogam um importante papel. Neste artigo, nos dedicamos a estudar o corpo que aparece como uma das imagens de uma cidade. Ao realizar esse exercício através da análise de uma série de cartões-postais das praias do Rio de Janeiro, buscamos romper com a naturalização desse corpo, do modo como aparece e dos locais onde é mostrado. Partindo de uma perspectiva semiológica e antropológica, lançamos mão de uma metodologia qualitativa para analisar imagens fotográficas reproduzidas nos postais e a realidade social que elas (re)constroem. Palavras-chave: Corpo; Imaginário; Cidade. Body as imaginary of the city Abstract: In the constitution of urban imaginary, city and body communicate, transmit messages and play an important role. In this article, we study the body that appears as one of the images of a city. When doing this exercise by examining a series of postcards from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, we try to break with the naturalization this body, the way it is shown and where it appears. Starting from a semiological and an anthropological perspective, we use a qualitative methodology to analyze photographic images reproduced on postcards and the social reality that they (re)construct. Keywords: Body; Imaginary; City.

Reading a Ciceronian Preface

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yelena Baraz
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
The Body ◽  
Interactive Process ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the preface as an interactive process, a journey during which the author strives to win over the reader so as to obtain a favorable reception for his text before the reader actually encounters the body of the work. It considers the importance of Cicero’s insertion of his project into the social institution of amicitia and the way in which texts associated with circles of amicitia establish relations between an author and his readers. It also discusses Cicero’s invoking of tradition in the form of quotations, allusions, and the choice of dialogue characters. To illustrate Cicero’s overall rhetorical strategy and to reconstruct the step-by-step progression that he creates for the ideal reader approaching his work, the chapter offers a reading of the prefaces to Topica and De Senectute.

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