The Attentive Body: How the Indexicality of Epigenetic Processes Enriches Our Understanding of Embodied Subjectivity
Autor: | Samantha Frost |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Subjectivity Cognitive science Health (social science) Biosemiotics Social Psychology 05 social sciences 050905 science studies Enactivism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Embodied cognition Posthumanism 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology 0509 other social sciences Indexicality Biopower |
Zdroj: | Body & Society. 26:3-34 |
ISSN: | 1460-3632 1357-034X |
DOI: | 10.1177/1357034x20940778 |
Popis: | Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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