"Body" is like these...
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Thereâs an affect associated with every functioning of the body, from moving your foot to take
a step to moving your lips to make words. Affect is simply a body movement looked at from
the point of view of its potential â its capacity to come to be, or better, to come to do.... [Read All]
"how the body is both shaped by power and employed as an instrument to maintain it" (Shustermann)
"if oppressive power relations can impose onerous identities that get encoded
and sustained in our bodies, these oppressive relations can themselves be challenged by
alternative somatic practices."
(Shustermann)
"Michel Foucault's seminal vision of the body as a docile, malleable site for
inscribing social power reveals the crucial role somatics can play for political philosophy." (Shustermann)
Recognition of somatic training as an essential means toward philosophical enlightenment lies at the heart of Asian practices of Hatha Yoga, Zen meditation, and T'ai chi ch'uan. (Shustermann)



