photography Julieta Cervantes
detail, Forsythe Company
"embodiment includes tripping, falling over, and a whole host of other such mistakes. It includes vulnerability, passivity, suffering, even simple hunger. It includes episodes of insomnia, weariness and exhaustion, a sense of insignificance and even sheer indifference to the world. In other words, bodies can and do become overwhelmed. The unchosen and unforeseen exceed the ability of the body to contain or absorb. And this is not an abnormal condition: it is part of being as flesh
(...) sensible, open to the pangs of hunger and eros,
(...) worthy of ethics"
(Critchley, 2002: 21)
"we need (...) to think (*practice) of humans as collective and emotional
as well as (*beyond) individual and rational"
(Protevi, 2009 : kindle location 2468)
"...a biopolitical domain arising out of a heightened awareness of particular forms of embodiment (*and relational attention) which, in turn, allow certain forms of signification to be grasped 'instinctively'" (Thrift, 2008: kindle location 1825)
"our being-in-the world experienced as emotional attunement"
(Critchley, 2005: 39)
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