The historical experience of the technocracy by the people is not esoteric and abstract knowledge, but it is concrete and
bodily experience of the people, individually and collectively.
The dominant occasion would have too burdensome a job if it alone were responsible for the integration of
bodily experience.
As the living person draws upon a wider
bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.
Now in Whitehead's schema, the complex transformations of
bodily experience into higher levels of integration with mental initiatives of wider scope is a similar requirement for sustained realization of value, rather than momentary purposes (IMM 690).
Both Cobb and Sherburne try to unify human experience within the dominant thread of occasions, but our supposition is that the unity of many
bodily experiences occurs within threads of nondominant occasions within the supposedly nonsocial nexus.
The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which
bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1)
bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
Augustine's use of the language of
bodily experience is what makes the Confessions communicable to readers of every age.
Recently he has reaffirmed this methodological decision: «
bodily experience, not vision of environmental objects [should be] our initial sample of perception» (CSPM 80).
This bodily experience is not every occasion that was shared by the bodysoul.
They are attempting to reintegrate
bodily experience into religious life.
Our normal, ordinary
bodily experience is like that of, say, feeling tired, which we might describe as a general feeling of tension and strain broadly diffused throughout the whole body.
Deeper temporal transitions, in particular those involved with
bodily experience, continue.
Physical measurement provides a means of ordering observations according to the necessary conditions of succession and juxtaposition that characterize
bodily experience in time and space.
This sense of alienness provides a subtle,
bodily experienced frame of reference within which it becomes easy to construct and perpetuate stereotypes.
Thus his argument in support of his system involves an appeal to the fundamental importance of
our bodily experience rather than simply our experience as centered selves (cf. AI 243).
Our relation to God is, therefore, more intimate than to our own bodies, at least as Whitehead explicates
our bodily experience.
Those who view sex as more than
a bodily experience — as a melding of two bodies, souls, and spirits — seem to me to be always on a spiritual quest for more of God.
For Whitehead, the «soul» is composed of a series of «presiding» or «dominant» occasions in our bodies; he supposes that these «dominant occasions» occur in or about the brain so as to receive from the brain a peculiarly - focussed «report» of
bodily experience, not available to any other occasion.
Since we can not identify «life» with «self,» how then should we speak of that center of
bodily experience which we call the «soul» or «personality»?
We have been saying that parent - child intimacy develops in the process of teaching the child to prize his own body and
bodily experiences, his own senses and sensations, his own feelings, both good and bad.
These subordinate, nondominant, and nonconscious (not explicitly reflective) enduring objects ease the job of the presiding occasion of the regnant society in integrating
bodily experience and are called by Gallagher subordinate «living persons.
But Wager longed to follow up Benedetti's work looking at a tangible link between thought and
bodily experience.
This bodily experience helps the student to overcome the misconception that increasing the length of string should increase the force.
All of the work on acting out suggests that classrooms should include more physical activity designed to map abstract information onto
bodily experiences.
(And, if you used your imagination to understood the last few sentences, you will see how grounding abstract terms such as force and radius in concrete
bodily experiences, such as roller skating, can generate new understanding.)
Importantly, acting out can help to provide
those bodily experiences and mappings.
A really interesting paper, published this year in the journal PLOS ONE, looked at
the bodily experience of guilt to see if we actually embody the emotion of guilt.
Eventually expanding mindful awareness into other domains of personal experience — such as voluntary control over breathing, thoughts, memories, future projections, smells, sounds, sensations,
bodily experiences, emotions, strengths, clinging, and craving.
With this state of being comes equipoise and the «clear light» of experiencing
your bodily experience, in the now.
Sexuality and Fertility Awareness (FA) education as part of «body literacy» is a core area of Tathapi's work, involving not only
bodily experience of the reproductive system but also the socio - cultural and political experience of women's health.
By associating a thought or emotion with a movement, you are fostering kinesthetic empathy, or the idea that
bodily experiences provide a type of knowledge that can not be conveyed through words alone, allowing others to better connect with you and how you are feeling in that moment.
Other researchers (Roche & Gal - Petitfaux, 2015) have studied the effects of a tool that helps students identify the bodily skills needed to act in the classroom (in physical education) and showed that video - based training sparked a sensory immersion allowing students to develop reflection processes, both individual (about
bodily experience in the classroom) and collective (about professional rules).
Its artworks consider social and economic systems, class and gender,
bodily experience and existential questions, while the scales it deals with range from the macro to the micro.
These are techniques that shape
bodily experience of time and space, taking the human body as a target of power.
Other examples of performative work explore the sensate aspects of
bodily experience, as Ann Hamilton does in her intimately scaled videos of body parts.
An artist with an inimitable style, for the last twenty years Ernesto Neto has been bringing his viewers sensory and
bodily experiences.
Large - scale art was historically associated with an immersive,
bodily experience that instilled sensations of awe and wonder in the viewer, known as the sublime.
Hollowell discusses her upbringing and education in California, her art historical influences, as well as painting from her own
bodily experiences.
Toward the end of the video, however, the consideration of the body as an object of desire shifts to a soothsaying of
bodily experience after death.
Although he continued to be interested in relating a psychological intensity to
bodily experience, he stopped using his own body in performances.
«Malevich is monumental not for what he put into pictorial space,» writes Schjeldal, «but for what he took out:
bodily experience, the fundamental theme of Western art since the Renaissance.»
Graham's performances of the 1970s and his architectural pavilions of the 1980s to the present, with their kaleidoscopic refraction of
bodily experience, demonstrate his interest in revealing the private self as part of a social, public context.
The experience of viewing is not unlike being immersed in a sea of Donald Judd's aluminum boxes, where one is caught up in dizzying replication with differences that originate in some kind of logic, yet exceed our conceptual grasp, throwing us into rich real - time
bodily experience.
Mouthing (the Sentient Limb) looks at the ways in which our minds are connected to our bodies by presenting a group of artworks that explores sensations relating to physical presence and returning our attention to
bodily experiences.
Working directly from life also allowed him to evade academic solutions to depicting the world, instead paying attention to the complex nature of our seeing; how we map the world as we turn our head and our eyes... the kinesthetic rhythms that animate his landscapes and portraits, which also knead the hanging and splayed bodies of dead animals, suggest
the bodily experience of dance and song, especially the plaintive cry of the human voice.
The video pieces rethink
the bodily experience and give the sensation of being lost and immersed.
Through research, McNulty looks for new frameworks for activity, to create works which propose a new kind of relationship to time and space, to histories, as well as
our bodily experience of such forms.
In their powerfully haptic effect, Virnich's charged objects maintain their connection to archaic
bodily experience.
Her methods incorporate sculptural and performative means of achieving imagery that refigures the medium of photography around
bodily experience.