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artist Simone Rubi                       artist Wangechi Mutu  artist Raoul Hausmann   Shirin Neshat


 

"Since no body (not even a naked body) escapes (re)presentation altogether, the virtual body (as any other body) inscribes its presence and absence in the very act of its performace, leaving gaps and spaces in its wake."

                                              -- Susan Broadhurst Digital Practices (2007)

 

"I, too, have ropes around my neck.  I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose.  I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, I kick.  Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both.  Do you hear? I refuse to choose."

 

 --Salman Rushdie, East and West (1994) 

 

"I believe that Man's first real figurative experience is the recognition of his own image in the mirror: the fiction which comes closest to reality. But it is not long before the reflection begins to send back the same unknowns, the same questions, the same problems, as reality itself: unknowns and questions which Man is driven to re-propose in the form of pictures."

 

--Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1964 (photographer/artist)

   

"The word remember (re-member) evokes the coming together of severed parts, fragments becoming a whole.  Photography has been, and is, central to that aspects of decolonization that calls us back to the past and offers a way to reclaim and renew life-affirming bonds.  Using these images, we connect ourselves to a recuperative, redemptive memory that enable us to construct radical identities, images of ourselves that transcend the limits of the colonizing eye."

 

-- bell hooks (p. 394) "In our Glory: Photograpy and black life" essay in The Photography Reader  Wells, L.

 

 

                    All bodies are in a perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are entering into them and passing out of them

                         continuously.

                                                  -- Gottfried Leibniz


 

    

   ...  art and the body (yvonne volkart)      ... sea dragons ...      "Blued Food" (A. Thomas' SL bodies)


Questions related to the body:

 

 Some of the big core questions guiding this study include: 

  • What is virtual embodiment?

  • How do we build/write bodies into being online?

  • How must the body be re-envisioned to understand identity and participation online?

  • How can the body as metaphor attend to the "histories of participation" that are written into and onto an "embodied knowing" and thus shape our senses of self?

  • How do the metaphors of "body" and "voice" work together and apart to describe online identity construction? (start here... Linda Marie Walker on body and voice "Four Cries"...)

 

More specifically, I plan to focus on…

  • What material connections do we forge between our various selves online and off?

  • How are semiotic sign systems used to build these connections?

  • What are the affective relationships (or movements) created in these connections?

 


online embodiment:

 

Katherine Hayles:

 

Other books/articles of interest:

  • Hardey M. (2002). Life beyond the screen: Embodiment and identity throughthe Internet. The Sociological Review, 50 (4), 570-585.

 

 

Related Bibliographies

 


materiality & semiotics of building bodies:

 

 


affective bodies:

 

 


cyborg and other hybrid/composite bodies:

 

 

 


body & voice ensembles:

 

  • Snaza, N. & Lensmire, T. (2006). Abandon voice? Pedagogy, the body, and late capitalism. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 2, retrieved from eScholarhsip

 


the networked self:

 

 


other related resources:

 

  • Jackson, R. L. (2006). Scripting the Black masculine body: Identity, discourse, and racial politics in popular media. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

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    Diane P. Freedman & Martha Stoddard Holmes (Eds.) The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy

     

 Rick Beach's summary on this book -- When students think the teacher's body is clearly marked by ethnicity, race, disability, size, gender, sexuality, illness, age, pregnancy, class, linguistic and geographic origins, or some combination of these, both themode and the content of education can change. Other, less visible aspects of a teacher's body, such as depression or a history of sexual assault, can have an equally powerful impact on how we teach and learn. The collection anatomizes these moments of embodied pedagogy as unexpected teaching opportunities and examines their apparent impact on teacher-student educational dynamics of power, authority, desire, friendship, open-mindedness, and resistance.

 


 

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