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- Title: Inter-Corporeity/Tarpkuniskumas (Report)
- Author : Algis Mickunas
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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Introduction While speaking about vision, images, and texts, it would be appropriate to note that all such terms are not derived from a specific human bodily organ, such as "an eye" or even a localized brain function, but from a culturally predominant metaphor: light. The latter is not a visual phenomenon, but an all pervading sensuous dimension that allows various experiential fields to intersect and signify each other. Light metaphors abound: "In light of reason," or the "divine light," or "Enlightenment," and even such variants as "clear and distinct ideas" or "phenomena" belong to this domain. Moreover, the emphasis on one selected and biologically interpreted bodily function--the ocular--neglects more fundamental aspects of perception, one of which is kinaesthetic field that comprises an entire system of "oriented body" wherein a visual function comprises a narrow range of perception. Thus, "orientational movements" are a condition for visual capacity, and such movements are the activity of entire body. Moreover, the "physiological body" as a base, articulated in all sorts of scientific studies and autopsies would be a momentary point, forced to stand still and ceasing to be a worldly body. Scientific body is part of a causal chain and functions only when causes compel it to react to affects. But such body could not look for something that is not present as a cause of reaction. In this sense, scientific body is not active or interactive but reactive and hence mostly dormant. Only an active, oriented and interactive body can have a vision. In this essay this active body will be explored for the ways that allow the intertwining of intercorporeal visibility in the field of "aesthetics" as the primary source of the quest for intelligibility.