Discourses and Inter-Corporeity

• Main Author: Algis Mickūnas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2015-10-01
• Series: Santalka: Filosofija, Komunikacija
• Subjects: horizons; “I can”; inter-corporeity; kinesthetic body; space-time morphologies
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cpc.2015.227

Contemporary European theories have focused attention on corporeity, its surface excitations and passions, and even on politically constructed bodies – how do men and women “carry their bodies”. The great variety of such claims suggests transformations in theoretical thinking, yet such changes were already articulated at another level by phenomenological studies: kinesthetic body. It is obvious that to speak of corporeity is possible only on the basis of analyses of corporeal movements. Thus, the aim of this essay is to disclose the structures of bodily movements, constituting the basis of primordial awareness – not “I think” but “I can”. In the essay there are presented a number of theses of post modernists who have not developed adequate analyses of corporeal movements.