Body

Habitus

RELATED TERMS: Habitat The Greek term hexis was translated into the Latin word habitus. Hexis, habitus or disposition is a general term for a person’s readiness to act in a certain way. It finds expression in acts of particular virtues or vices like honesty, generosity, cheerfulness, jealousy or cruelty. The concept of habitus was introduced into anthropology by MarcelContinue reading “Habitus”

Walking

RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Derive; Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science “Only thoughts which come from walking have any value.” (Nietzsche, 1998: 9) Nietzsche, in the above epithet, is arguing against the over-valuation of a sedentary life, as does, in another context, Arendt argue against the valuing of the contemplative life over and above the active life.Continue reading “Walking”

Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science

RELATED TERMS: Body; Exosomatisation; Ontological Metalepsis; Sensorimotor System; Somatosensory System; World-building Enaction, as a programme for understanding cognition, was initially articulated in 1991 by Varela, Thompson and Rosch (2016). This programme breaks with the formalisms of the information-processing and symbolic representation approaches previously prevalent in cognitive science. Instead, cognition is taken to be grounded inContinue reading “Enaction Paradigm – Cognitive Science”

Exosomatisation

RELATED TERMS: Endosomatisation; [Of] Grammatography; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Remembering: Mnemotechne, Mnemonics and Memory Exosomatisation is the process of technical exteriorisation of cognition and memory. Nevertheless, Agamben (Agamben and Pensotti, 2021) warns, in relation to the progressive digitisation and robotisation of life, “every exosomatic technical progress corresponds to a regression of the endosomatic functions. ButContinue reading “Exosomatisation”

RELATED TERMS: Biopolitics and Biopower; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality; Sensorimotor System; Somatosensory System “Simone de Beauvoir argues that the body is a situation — a set of material givens whose value shifts depending on context … [For Donna Haraway,] the body is the vantage point from which one makesContinue reading “Body”