I posted on the material on Australia as a dystopia in order to provide a cultural context for the previous posts on the lived body and place. The post was meant to give an answer to why this kind of material. Why are you exploring this pathway.
I'm digging my way out of the scientific enlightenment---which has meant a reductionist natural science with a mechanistic materialist metaphysics; a way to return to the everyday world that we normally inhabit without embracing aesthetics. It is the way of lived bodily existence.
The previous post on the lived body painting the electronic cottage was meant to indicate a way to do this. The lived body activates a space and makes it a body place. We can take this insight into lived bodily existence and develop through walking a favourite beach or walking the city. This bodily existence provides us with of access to the world as we come to know the world through this bodily experience.
This is a rupture from mechanistic materialism as its natural moving body is a machine and not a lived organic body. 'Lived' is the key difference, not consciousness as most anti-physicalist philosophy has traditionally held.
The argument is that of Merleau-Ponty. It can be found in his text The Phenomenology of Perception. The argument is that the places we know are known by the bodies we live. We cannot be implaced without being embodied. And, to be embodied is to be capable of implacement.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at February 4, 2004 06:32 PM | TrackBack