scholarly journals Body Meets Space. Space Becomes Dress.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lipsit
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
The World ◽  
Soft Architecture

Forming. Shifting. Shaping. The envelope of one’s physiological body extends outwards in multiple shells, layer by layer. The versions of this envelope exist in the interstitial moment between clothing and architecture; ever forming and being formed, they shift and shape the circulation and happenings of the body on one side and the world on the other. The study of garments lends architecture recognition of various visible and invisible forces that create space and envelope. When space becomes dress, body specificity and movement is emphasized, and the geometries of the physiological body and what it means to experience space as an individual becomes primary, achieving a qualitative, sensory experience extending from the powers of kinaesthetic sense. Oscillating between scales and acts of making, model experimentation invents new ways to conceive and create architecture — a soft architecture finds itself operating here: on the liminal edge of body, envelope, and space

scholarly journals Body Meets Space. Space Becomes Dress.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lipsit
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
The World ◽  
Soft Architecture

Forming. Shifting. Shaping. The envelope of one’s physiological body extends outwards in multiple shells, layer by layer. The versions of this envelope exist in the interstitial moment between clothing and architecture; ever forming and being formed, they shift and shape the circulation and happenings of the body on one side and the world on the other. The study of garments lends architecture recognition of various visible and invisible forces that create space and envelope. When space becomes dress, body specificity and movement is emphasized, and the geometries of the physiological body and what it means to experience space as an individual becomes primary, achieving a qualitative, sensory experience extending from the powers of kinaesthetic sense. Oscillating between scales and acts of making, model experimentation invents new ways to conceive and create architecture — a soft architecture finds itself operating here: on the liminal edge of body, envelope, and space

Bodily Chiasms

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Hugo Letiche
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Woman ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
The World ◽  
Radical Interaction

The theory of the body I want to explore here, assumes that researcher and researched are part of the same flesh of the world and can be understood in radical conjunction and not in duality. An interview is examined, first from the lifeworld (nursing) research paradigm and thereafter on the hand of Merleau-Ponty's concept of the reversibility of touching and being touched, wherein ‘subject’ (who touches) and ‘object’ (who is touched) are radically interrelated and coconstituted. Merleau-Ponty develops his reflections on this radical interaction as the ‘chiasm’. Although investigating the ‘chiasm’ can be seen as lifeworld research, the more common lifeworld approach only leads to rich description, which lacks the radical relational understanding of Merleau-Ponty's insights. I believe that acknowledgement of the chiasms of interrelationship reveals complex processes of enfoldment taking place between researcher and researched, writer and reader. All of them are enclosed in what Merleau-Ponty called the enfoldments or flesh of the world; which makes it very difficult to determine who touches whom and who is touched by whom. Research, when it tries to see, interpret and study the other, focuses on the visible of touching and being touched; but these inherently carry with them the invisible of the same actions. The consequences of these relationships for my study of a specific elderly woman are explored here.

Evolution of water balance in the genusDrosophila

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (13) ◽  
pp. 2331-2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen G. Gibbs ◽  
Luciano M. Matzkin
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Dehydration Tolerance ◽  
Cactophilic Drosophila ◽  
Adaptive Mechanisms ◽  
The World

SUMMARYFruit flies of the genus Drosophila have independently invaded deserts around the world on numerous occasions. To understand the physiological mechanisms allowing these small organisms to survive and thrive in arid environments, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of water balance in Drosophila species from different habitats. Desert (cactophilic) species were more resistant to desiccation than mesic ones. This resistance could be accomplished in three ways: by increasing the amount of water in the body, by reducing rates of water loss or by tolerating the loss of a greater percentage of body water (dehydration tolerance). Cactophilic Drosophila lost water less rapidly and appeared to be more tolerant of low water content, although males actually contained less water than their mesic congeners. However, when the phylogenetic relationships between the species were taken into account, greater dehydration tolerance was not correlated with increased desiccation resistance. Therefore, only one of the three expected adaptive mechanisms, lower rates of water loss, has actually evolved in desert Drosophila, and the other apparently adaptive difference between arid and mesic species (increased dehydration tolerance) instead reflects phylogenetic history.

Situating Feminist Theologies Phenomenologically

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Peckruhn
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Chapter 2 investigates the manner in which feminist theologies employ experience as a source for theology, particularly sensory experience. It highlights scholarly work that seeks to overcome body-mind dualisms by appealing to perception and analyzes where and how these attempts fall short. Perception in the theological works surveyed is either conceived in an empiricist or intellectualist fashion, which upholds the very body-mind dualism sought to move beyond. The chapter proposes that we are our bodies, and we experience the world as we are in the world through our bodies, as body-subjects. This leaves no room for an ontological separation of the subject “I” and the body of the subject.

Ecclesiology

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-240
Author(s):  
Tom Greggs
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines Bonhoeffer’s account of the church and advocates that throughout Bonhoeffer’s corpus there remains a desire to explicate the reality of the church in terms of its structural being with and for the other. This structure exists both internally in terms of its members’ relation to each other, and externally as the church relates as a corporate body to the world. The chapter considers Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiological method; the visibility of the church; vicarious representation; the church as the body of Christ; the agency of the Holy Spirit; preaching, the sacraments, and the offices of the church; and the question of the church in a religionless age.

Burqa and the human umwelt

Semiotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (204) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarah Niazi Khan ◽  
Kathryn Staiano-Ross
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The World

AbstractWe all construct models of the world by which we make sense of the phenomena we encounter. But rarely is the model of the women who wear the burqa considered. We hold that the world must be perceived through the body of the other before meaning can be assessed. We argue that the burqa is not an object, but a set of human relationships. It has no singular interpretant by which it can be understood. It is a highly nuanced semiosic phenomenon that we believe can best be understood by placing the burqa within a specific human umwelt.

scholarly journals Particularities of the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOTAN MARIA ◽  
Camelia Grigore ◽  
ELISABETA ANTONESCU ◽  
Felicia Gligor ◽  
Lavinia Duica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Respiratory Tract ◽  
Muscle Pain ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
The World ◽  
Pulmonary Changes ◽  
Hematological Tests

Abstract IntroductionSARS-CoV-2 virus infection was first reported in China in late 2019 and has spread rapidly around the world. There is little information about the peculiarities of COVID-19 infection in children because the number of infected children was small, around 2% of all diseases.MethodsIn this retrospective study, we recruited 143 children infected with SARS-CoV-2 between March and October 2020, in Sibiu, Romania. RT-PCR tests, serum SARS-CoV-2 IgG/ IgM antibodies, lung radiography, biochemical and hematological tests were performed during the hospitalization.ResultsOf the 143 children selected in the study, 47.0% were male and 53% were female. At admission, all children tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, collecting nasopharyngeal exudate.Clinical manifestations included: cough in 75.52% of cases, fever in 55.94% of cases, nasal obstruction in 50.34% of cases, rhinorrhea in 38.46% of cases, muscle pain in 26.57% of cases, fatigue in 17.48% of cases, diarrhea and headache in 14.68% of cases. In 21 children (14,68%), the number of leukocytes was increased. In 38 cases (26,57%), the lung radiograph showed changes similar to bronchopneumonia, and the other cases did not have pulmonary changes. The persistence of the virus in the body of infected children is above the average reported in studies performed in adults, the virus being identified in the respiratory tract between 16 and 34 days. IgG class antibodies in patients' serum appeared between the 4th day of hospitalization and up to a maximum of 25 days, with a mean of 16.5 days.ConclusionThe persistence of the virus in the body of infected children is above the average reported in studies performed in adults, the virus being identified in the respiratory tract between 16 and 34 days. IgG class antibodies in patients' serum appeared within a mean of 16.5 days. All children were treated with symptomatic support without complications.

scholarly journals Modernitetens modsigelser. Konfigurationskonflikter og samfundstænkning i Grundtvigs »Om Mennesket i Verden«

1998 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Henning Eichberg
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Contradictions of Modernity. Conflicting Configurations and Societal Thinking in Grundtvig's »The Human Being in the World«A Worm - a God. About the Human Being in the World. Ove Korsgaard (ed.). With contributions of Niels Buur Hansen, Hans Hauge, Bosse Bergstedt, Uffe Jonas and Knud Bjarne Gjesing. Odense Universitetsforlag 1997.By Henning EichbergIn 1817, Grundtvig wrote »Om Mennesket i Verden« which can be regarded as a key to the understanding of his philosophy and psychology, but which is difficult to place in relation to his later folkelig, societal engagement. A recent reedition of this text together with some actual comments by Grundtvig researchers is an occasion to quest deeper about this relation.However, it is not enough to ask - as Grundtvig research has done for a long time - what Grundtvig wanted to say, but his text can be regarded as a document of how modem orientation in the world is characterized by conflicting linguistic and metaphorical patterns, which sometimes may tell another story than intended.On the one hand, Grundtvig's text speaks of a lot of dualistic contradictions such as life vs. death, light vs. darkness, truth vs. lie, God vs. devil, human fall vs. resurrection, body vs. spirit, nature vs. history and time vs. eternity. In contrast to the author's intention to produce clarity and lucidity - whether in the spirit of Christianity or of modem rationality - the binary constructions give rather a confusing picture of systematical disorder where polarity and polemics are mixed, antagonism and gradual order, dichotomy and exclusive either-or, paradoxes and dialectical contradictions. On the other hand,Grundtvig tries again and again to build up three-pole imaginations as for instance the threefold human relation to time, space and truth and the three ages of spiritual seeing, feeling and conceptualization resp. of mythology (childhood), theology (youth) and history (adult age). The main history, Grundtvig wants to tell in his text, is built up around the trialectic relation of the human being to the body, to the spirit and to itself, to the living soul.The most difficult to understand in this relation seems to be what Grundtvig calls the spirit, Aanden. Grundtvig describes it as Aandigt Samfund mellem Menneske og Sandhed, »the spiritual community between the human being and the truth«, and this may direct our attention towards samfund, meaning at the same time association, togetherness and society. Aanden is described by threefold effects - will, conscience and faith, all of them describing social relations between human beings resp. their psychological correlate. The same social undertone is true when Grundtvig characterizes three Aande-Livets Spor (»traces of spiritual life«): the word, the history and love. If »the spirit« represents what is larger or »higher« than the single human being and what cannot be touched by his or her hand, then this definition fits exactly to society or the sociality of the human being. Social life - whether understood as culture, social identity or folk (people) - is not only a quantitative sum of human individuals, but represents another quality of natural order. Thus it has its logic that Grundtvig places the human being in between the realms of minerals, plant and animal life on the one hand and the »higher« order on the other, which can be understood as the social existence.In this respect, the societal dimension is not at all absent in his philosophy of 1817. However, it is not enough to state the implicite presence of sociality as such in the earlier Grundtvigian thinking before his folkelig break-through. What was the sociality, more concretely, which Grundtvig experienced during the early modernity? In general, highly dichotomous concepts are dominating the modem discourse as capitalism vs. feudalism, materialism vs. idealism, modernity vs. premodemity, democracy vs. absolutism or revolution vs. restoration; Grundtvig was always difficult to place into these patterns. Again, it might be helpful to try a trialectical approach, transcending the dualism of state and market by civil society as a third field of social action. Indeed, it was civil society with its farmers' anarchist undertones which became the contents of Grundtvig's later folk engagement.

scholarly journals Nicolas Bouvier: the Body as Mediator

Viatica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles LOUŸS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses

In The Japanese Chronicles, Nicolas Bouvier presents a full experience of being in the world, where all the senses are engaged, smell and taste in particular. Bouvier recalibrates the question of the body in travel narratives and shows how the senses can inform knowledge about the other, as organs of intercultural mediation. The sensorial notes of the text become tools for anthropological knowledge, calling on the body.

scholarly journals Social-Epistemic Rhetoric of (Un)certainty in Biomedical and Psychiatric Scientific Academic Writing: a Diatextual Analysis

Human Arenas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia Manuti ◽  
Giuseppe Mininni ◽  
Rosa Scardigno ◽  
Ignazio Grattagliano
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Epistemic Rhetoric

Abstract In line with the general aims of scientific textuality, research papers in the biomedical and psychiatric academic domains mostly attempt to demonstrate the validity of their assumptions and to contrast with the sense of uncertainty that sometimes frames their conclusions. Moving from this premise, the present paper aimed to focus on these features and to investigate if and the extent to which biomedical and psychiatric texts convey different social-epistemic rhetoric of uncertainty. In view of this, a qualitative study was conducted adopting diatextual analysis to investigate a corpus of 298 scientific articles taken from the British Medical Journal and from the British Journal of Psychiatry published in 2013. Our analytical approach led to identifying two different types of social-epistemic rhetoric. The first one was mostly oriented to “describing” the world, accounting for the body-mind nexus as conceptualized within the “medical” point of view. On the other hand, the second one was oriented to “interpreting” the world, debating the problematic and critical features of the body-mind relationship as developed within the psychiatry discursive realm.

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