Postmodern/Post-mortem Human Body-Parts: Grotesque Subjects in The Melancholy of Anatomy

This paper critiques the literary representation of the human body as a “clean” slate, an organically wholesome subject by delving into the postmodern body-writing of Shelley Jackson’s short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy (2002). Building upon the idea of “metabody” or grotesque body-part as subjects, the flesh-characters, namely Egg, Sperm, Foetus, Cancer, Nerve, Phlegm, Blood, Milk and Fat, breaks apart from their marginality, and evolves in a rhizomatic structure, pressing their possibilities of manifold existence in a fantastical world. Through the lens of body studies critics (Mikhail Bakhtin and Elisabeth Grosz) and recent postmodern scholarship, the paper studies the performance of flesh-characters, creating a post-mortem pathology in literature. Jackson’s deviant approach re-maps the anatomy of the human body and engages in psychophysiological parodies, thereby disclosing social phobias pertaining to the repulsive sides of the human and feminine body. Metabodies are self-reflexive, postmodern grotesque, with micro-narratives; and their innovative representations give agency and consciousness to the usually discarded body-parts and fluids, thereby making the human body a non-normative and discursive text and context.

Enhanced index for water body delineation and area calculation using Google Earth Engine: a case study of the Manchar Lake

The sustainability of the hydrological and ecological ecosystems of any region requires continuous monitoring of the water bodies. Recent advancements in satellite-based remote optical sensors, big data analysis and cloud computing have given new dimensions to the field of water body studies including their detection as well as analysis. The present study extends the existing methods to assess the contemporary surface water detection and monitoring techniques via remote sensing. The proposed technique implies an improved hybrid approach for the purpose along with the calculation of the boundary areas. The study has been carried out on the Manchar Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in Pakistan as well as in South Asia. The proposed hybrid water index along with the different existing water body detection indices and spectral bands have been worked out on the satellite images retrieved from the Google Earth Engine to detect and analyze the area/flow changes in the water body. Based on the 7 years of data, the proposed algorithm calculates the water body area more precisely. With limited availability of metadata about the study area, the results have been validated both qualitatively through national-met data and statistically. These results aid to better preserve and improve the quality of the water resource.

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

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.

Headphones, Auditory Violence and the Sonic Flooding of Corporeal Space

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.

Víctima, monstruo o ser humano en pantalla: Agencia femenina, diversidad funcional y el derecho a ser un monstruo en “Hush”=Victim, monster or human being on screen: female agency, functional diversity and the right to be a monster in Hush

<p align="left"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Este artículo pretende explorar las implicaciones de la agencia femenina dibujadas en la cinta de horror de 2016 <em>Hush</em>, dirigida por Mike Flanagan y escrita por él mismo junto a Kate Siegel, protagonista del filme. Para este fin se realizará una revisión teórica desde los estudios del cuerpo y los estudios feministas sobre la agencia corporal femenina, la diversidad funcional, lo monstruoso femenino y las representaciones corporales en los medios audiovisuales. Así, se abordarán conceptos y figuras de teóricas como De Lauretis, Mulvey, Creed, Garland-Thomson y Blackman ente otras/os, con el objetivo de analizar y problematizar los motivos presentes en el filme, desde las nociones de la subversión de los estereotipos femeninos y la reivindicación crítica de la abyección.</p><p align="left"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to explore the implications of female agency drawn in the 2016 horror film <em>Hush</em>, directed by Mike Flanagan and co-written with Kate Siegel, the film's protagonist. For this purpose, a theoretical review will be carried out from body studies and feminist studies on female bodily agency, functional diversity, the monstrous feminine and body representations in audiovisual media. Thus, concepts and figures of theorists such as De Lauretis, Mulvey, Creed, Garland-Thomson and Blackman, among others, will be addressed in order to analyze and problematize the motifs present in the film, from the notions of the subversion of female stereotypes and the critical vindication of abjection.</p>

Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society

Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies, sensory studies and media studies. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Body & Society, managing editor Tomoko Tamari invited Professor Bryan S Turner, who was one of the journal’s founders (with Mike Featherstone), to reflect on the academic and historical background of Body & Society along with his own academic trajectory over the last 40 years.

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En los últimos 30 años, y como resultado de un vertebración entre diferentes disciplinas (entre las que podemos ubicar la antropología, la historia, la sociología, el arte, la psicología o la educación) se ha desarrollado un campo disciplinar que podemos denominar con la expresión anglosajona Body Studies. A partir del trabajo de algunos autores iniciales (Bryan Turner o David Le Breton) se han ido desarrollando diferentes aportaciones al estudio del cuerpo desde su perspectiva sociocultural. Nacidos como complemento o contrapartida a la perspectiva anatómica y biológica del cuerpo humano, han buscado ofrecer luz a determinados preguntas centrales sobre las formas de vivir la condición de humanidad. Distintos escenarios y geografías han jugado un papel relevante, pero de forma especial en los últimos 10 años han emergido grupos de investigación, proyectos, tesis, artículos, libros y congresos que sitúan a países como México, Brasil, Colombia o Argentina como uno de les ejes mundiales de la producción de saberes corporales. El número monográfico de la revista Albuquerque busca ofrecer a los lectores trabajos de actualidad centrados en la perspectiva de los Body Studies. Para el efecto, propone a investigadores, académicos e interesados en este campo (o intersección) un espacio en el cual debatir sus trabajos en la modalidad de proyectos finalizados de investigación (artículos completos), avances de proyectos, ensayos o artículos de revisión en los cuales se incorporen, problematizándose, temas que acerquen la perspectiva de los Body Studies desde diferentes ópticas, deslizamientos teóricos o metodologías.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World

Breath, the ephemeral materialization of air at the interface of body and world, engages with and alters the quality of both. As a process of inhalation and exhalation that signals its physiological universality, breath is an invisible prerequisite for life, an automated and functional necessity. Yet it is more than simply a reflexive action and can at times be controlled or manipulated. It can also affect or be affected by experiences, environments and relationships. In this essay, like the contributors to the special issue it prefaces, we aim to address the lacuna that exists in the examination of the meanings and embodiment of breath as a central theme in the humanitics and social sciences. Interdisciplinary perspectives that explore breath as a multifaceted phenomenon, both intrinsically shared and contextually distinct, open new directions in the field of breath and body studies.