Coming

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy ◽  
Adèle Van Reeth
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
The Body ◽  
Marquis De Sade ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Property Wealth ◽  
The Senses

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, Hegel, Saint Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism. Four additional essays were added to the American edition: “The Body of Pleasure,” a philosophical examination of the body and the senses; “Rühren, Berühren, Aufruhr (Moving, Touching, Uprising),” on the nature of touch; “Neither Seeing Nor Having,” an essay on the philosopher Gérard Granel’s meditations on the obsessive love of Paolo and Francesca in Canto V of Dante’s Inferno; and finally a lyrical and evocative prose-poem called “Nude Enumerated.”

Coming

Coming ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy ◽  
Adèle Van Reeth
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Marguerite Duras ◽  
Marquis De Sade ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Property Wealth

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, Hegel, Saint Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism.

Cinema and the Haptic in Modern Japan

Screen Bodies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Daisuke Miyao
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
German Cinema ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Modern Japan

The process of modernization in Japan appeared as a separation of the senses and remapping of the body, particularly privileging the sense of vision. How did the filmmakers, critics, and novelists in the 1920s and 1930s respond to such a reorganization of the body and the elevation of vision in the context of film culture? How did they formulate a cinematic discourse on remapping the body when the status of cinema was still in flux and its definition was debated? Focusing on cinematic commentary made by different writers, this article tackles these questions. Sato Haruo, Ozu Yasujiro, and Iwasaki Akira questioned the separation of the senses, which was often enforced by state. Inspired by German cinema released in Japan at that time, they explored the notion of the haptic in cinema and problematized the privileged sense of vision in this new visual medium.

scholarly journals alienated human

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Nguyen Anh Quoc ◽  
Nguyen Minh Tri ◽  
Nguyen Anh Thuong ◽  
Dinh The Hoang ◽  
Nguyen Van Bung
Keyword(s):  
Spare Parts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Senses ◽  
And Behavior

Man and nature is a unity between body and individual in behavior. Humans are liberty, creative, happy subjects in behavior and labor. By behavior and labor, humans produce tools, spare parts, machines, and robots to replace internal organs, lengthen the senses, and lengthen defective body parts. Evolution is no longer a mutation in the body but the assembly of accessories into organs, senses, and body parts when needed. People use devices that are manufactured to be used for what people want depending on specific conditions and circumstances. Labor and behavior make objectification of people, but alienated behavior and alienated labor make humanize the object. The time to enjoy liberty, creativity, and happiness is human, and the time to perform alienated behavior and alienated labor is the time to live for the non-human. People are corrupted into slavery to standards, money. It is the process of self-torture, torturing oneself; and the nobility of standards, the wealth of money is the unhappy product of life. Humans are liberty, creative and happy subjects; alienated human beings are all helpless, unhappy, deceit. Money, standards are products of helplessness, unhappiness, lies. Standards, money remove people from life.

Embodiment and Bodily Becoming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Heinämaa
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Stylistic Unity ◽  
Human Embodiment

The chapter clarifies Husserl’s phenomenological approach to embodiment by explicating his analytical concepts and his transcendental arguments concerning the constitution of living bodiliness (Leiblichkeit). The chapter argues that Husserlian phenomenology does not establish any simple opposition between naturalistic and phenomenological inquiries but instead offers a comprehensive account of the many senses of the body operative in human practices, including the practices of the sciences. The human body is given, not just as a material thing, but also as an instrument, as an agent, and an expressive stylistic whole. The second part of the chapter discusses recent applications of Husserlian philosophy of embodiment in the investigation of human plurality. By analyzing the exemplary phenomena of sexuality and sexual difference, the chapter demonstrates that the phenomenological concepts of style and stylistic unity can serve investigations into the diversity of human embodiment in its many forms.

Il De immortalitate animae di Agostino nella critica più recente

Augustinianum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-135
Author(s):  
Nello Cipriani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Divine Nature ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

In De immortalitate animae Augustine is not satisfied with completing his proof of the immortality of the soul – which had been left open in the second book of the Soliloquies –; he also answers some possible objections, demonstrating that the rational soul cannot cease to exist, it cannot die, nor can it change into an irrational body or soul. Furthermore, remaining faithful to the programmatic declaration of never wanting to stray from the authority of Christ (Acad. 3, 20, 43), he specifies the ontological status of the soul by affirming that it is, in itself, mutable and therefore not of a divine nature, as Varro had argued. Nor is it a substance foreign to the body, as the Platonists claimed, because the soul has an appetitus ad corpus and, if it questions itself, it easily discovers that it desires nothing else «except to do something, to know with intelligence or with the senses, or only to live, as far as this is in its power» (nisi agendi aliquid, aut sciendi, aut sentiendi, aut tantummodo vivendi in quantum sua illi potestas est).

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
David Stephen Calonne
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Early Decision

As one studies Crumb from the outset of his career to the present, it becomes evident that he has embarked on a massive autobiographical enterprise in which personal, secret “confessions”—in a mode reminiscent of figures as diverse as Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry Miller, and Allen Ginsberg—are made public and merge with the topics to which he is drawn in literature. This Introduction explores Crumb’s traumatic childhood and his early decision to become an artist, the influence of his two brothers on his early intellectual development as well as his rejection of organized religion. The focus then turns to a discussion of Crumb’s role as the genius of the “comix revolution” which was launched during Crumb’s time in San Francisco when Zap magazine was created. The chapter closes with a brief summary of the contents of each chapter. R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self aims to fill a major gap in contemporary scholarship in the humanities.

Performance: Listening Bodies

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-158
Author(s):  
Zoë Skoulding
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sound Poetry ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The 1960S

Discussion of Deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and artist Christine Sun Kim draws attention to the embodiment of sound performance, which is considered in this chapter in relation to technology, race, gender, bilingualism and, though the parallel performances of humans and birds, ecology. The work of poets such as Bob Cobbing and Henri Chopin offers examples of how sound poetry of the 1960s explored a liberated listening through recording. Yet such a listening, enabled by machines, draws attention back to the capacities of the human body. Serres’ simultaneous emphasis on the centrality of the senses and the space of codes and messages in which the body moves frames a discussion of various boundaries between language, sound and noise in the work of Emma Bennett, Jonathan Skinner, Holly Pester, Tracie Morris, Hannah Silva and Rhys Trimble.

Touching, Feeling, and Healing

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-232
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Rotter
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
The Body ◽  
The People ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Being Moved

This chapter considers touch in empire: it asks us to imagine how the body would feel being moved to a completely new environment. Hapticity, the chapter argues, is both the pauper and king of the senses. It is generally relegated to the realm of the lower senses, beneath even smell and taste. Conversely, touch can also be seen as the most powerful of the senses. It was of great importance in medieval Europe, for example. The metaphors used to describe empire were frequently haptic. The chapter also looks at how the Britons and Americans in India and the Philippines wanted to change the people they encountered. Health was a great motivator in this desire.

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