[...]e other, rather) ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interfaces and ="trms">folds in ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>{tutorial voices, screen videos, scripts, help files, layers of ="trms">codes and tools on each other, nested ="trms">folders on one's own computer, named ="trms">categories by oneself, horde of text files and renders, etc='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are (en-/de-)crypting extended bodies constructed of ="trms">language
subjectively constructed ="trms">phenomenon of the ="trms">communed ="trms">fold ="trms">interpreted ='lgc'>: the 3D computer programm
(='lgc'>=/= romantic refusal of all mediation)

="prgrph">-what is the ="trms">nature of the ="trms">technology involved in ="trms">CG='qstn'>?

="lsts lst1">•what is the source of the somatic sense of place, if not the body (since ="trms">Greeks) and ="trms">animality (since ="ppl">Deleuze ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Guattari), in the case of ="trms">CG='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{the way a good farmer will pick up soil and feel the dirt in his hands='lgc'>}
(="trms">Greek word) ‘soma’ refers to a corpse (in ="ppl">Homer,) not a living body (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#lived-body)
Neither the living body as an entity nor the Mind as an entity had a name.
for ="ppl">Aristotle, ‘thinking’ part of the soul, had an existence from any connection to the body.
“to experience the ="trms">world is the very ="trms">nature of body inside out.” (="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert > John Schumacher)


a ="trms">community whose ="trms">members are aware of each others’ passive ="trms">presence is ="trms">different forms
(active ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">present)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> these are issues of ="trms">social subject in a ="trms">technically mediated ="trms">world

to look at ="trms">CG ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relations='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fold (="ppl">="ppl">Ihde)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skill (="ppl">Merleau-Ponty)
="lsts lst1">•theory of affordance (="ppl">="ppl">Gibson)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">intra-action (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="lsts lst1">•detour (="ppl">="ppl">Latour)

(="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's) ‘body schema’ ='lgc'>: space of the body='lgc'> = 'space of ="trms">situation,’ orientation towards possible (not only existing) tasks ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> aspects of the external/virtual ="trms">world
body understood in terms of their ability to enter into one's projects ='lgc'>=/= spatial location
='lgc'>[what is the body schema of the hacker in ="trms">CG='qstn'>? (an external ="trms">world where there is no near or far.) what is experienced as their ="trms">Gestalt='qstn'>? which grasp is automatically localized='qstn'>? what are their ="nms">phantom limbs='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> body immediately known to self='lgc'>]


(body as the) ="trms">system of possible actions, a virtual body with its ="trms">phenomenal “place” defined by its task and ="trms">situation. “My body is wherever there is something to be done.”

kinaestheses, proprioception,

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what ‘play’ does to ‘ego’='qstn'>?

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(='lgc'>[is for ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia (='qstn'>? like ="ppl">Wittgenstein) all ‘certainties'='lgc'>] grounded in the) certainty of the body
='lgc'>{pain ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> certainty='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trauma ='lgc'>+ ="trms">memory

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(="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert > ) Rudofsky “un="trms">fashionable human body” (='at'>#="trms">veil)

Thomas Friedman “The Golden Straitjacket”
="lsts lst1">•political-economic garment of globalization era ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Straitjacket
(Cold War era='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Mao ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> suit
="lsts lst1">•Nehru ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> jacket
="lsts lst1">•Russian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fur
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•Islam ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hejab

(Tasavof='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{for which the body does not remain concrete and ="trms">material, and soul is ambiguous and poly="trms">morphic='lgc'>}, Pythagorean='lgc'>:) veli='lgc'>: soul can clothe itself in ="trms">different bodies ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Aristotle='lgc'>:) soul is the form of a particular living body ='lgc'>{ soul='lgc'> = organization of the body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “..there seems to be no case in which the soul can act or be acted on without involving the body” ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>:) soul='lgc'> = enlightened machine (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? proper organization of the brain)


='strcls'>***The body is a special image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">body image

body, the priveleged image, the ="trms">world of consiousness (through self-reference), the brain's primary frame of reference ='lgc'>[-constructed with libidinal intensity='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a map of ="trms">narcissistic investment='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= body without organs)
="lsts lst1">•condition of the subject's access to spatiality (of the ='lgc'>[numero-computationally='qstn'>?='lgc'>] built environment)
="lsts lst1">•anatomy is always “="trms">imaginary anatomy”
="lsts lst1">•the (body-)ego is a formation of ="nms">body image through primary ="trms">narcissim (in terms of Oedipus complex)
="lsts lst1">•="nms">body image also incorporate external objects (implements and ="trms">instruments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimate, vital, even libidinally cathected parts of the body) ='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the “detachable” parts of the body='lgc'>: urine, faeces, saliva, sperm, blood, vomit, hair, nails, skin='lgc'>--all retain something of the cathexis and value of a body

="prgrph">-for ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: an image that one know from within by ="trms">affections, rather than from without by perceptions='lgc'>: body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “my body” is the center of actions ='lgc'>==births='lgc'>='lgc'>==> re="trms">presentation
="prgrph">-for ="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>: “self-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of our bodily event” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (organic) conception of ="trms">nature
="prgrph">-masculinity='lgc'>: body subordinate to the mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>='lgc'>{ body='lgc'>: site for feminist critique
="prgrph">-for contemporary feminism (="ppl">Grosz)='lgc'>: body is neither a biological nor a ="trms">sociological ="trms">category, but rather a point of overlap between physical, ="trms">symbolic, and ="trms">material conditions

the ideological re="trms">presentations of a “real” precultural body
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealized in terms of abstract ="trms">geometry, rendered primal in primates,,,='lgc'>]

“The theory of the body is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready a theory of perception.” ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty

(in his studies on body, ="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert quotes John Schumacher quoting) James ="ppl">="ppl">Gibson='lgc'>: “The optical information to specify the self, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the head, body, arms, and hands, accompanies the optical information to specify the environment. The two sources of information coexist. The one could not exist without the other. When a man sees the ="trms">world, he sees his nose at the same time; or rather, the ="trms">world and his nose are both ="trms">specified and his awareness can shift....The ="trms">supposedly separate realms of the subjective and objective are actually only poles of attention.” (The ="trms">Ecological Approach to Visual Perception)


="trms">sensuality is co-making


rituals and ="trms">technologies are links between bodies and ="trms">societies
(="trms">social) ="trms">techniques for the inscription of locality into bodies
="trms">technology as an exteriorization of the functions of the body='qstn'>?

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ="trms">CG stands for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•computer graphics
="lsts lst1">•computer games
="lsts lst1">•creature generator
="lsts lst1">•="trms">categorial grammar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “='lgc'>='lgc'>==>”, “='lgc'>=/=”, etc
="lsts lst1">•conceptual graphs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> graph-based knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge re="trms">presentation and reasoning model
="lsts lst1">•computational ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geo-info-="trms">sys design
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*computational ="trms">gesture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extracorporeal ="trms">material culture
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•(complete governance, chaotic God, commanding general, common ground, center of gravity,)
="lsts lst1">•

the well-="trms">="trms">equipped invalid (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment, ="ppl">Virilio)

(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's radical exploration of='lgc'>:) body='lgc'> = (subject to the effects of) ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">technical reason
="trms">techniques of punishment (, a “political ="trms">technology”) ='lgc'>: “an art of unbearable sensations” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “an economy of suspended ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights”

="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: “We know nothing about a body until we know what it can do, in other words, what its ="trms">affects are, how they can or cannot enter into com="trms">position with other ="trms">affects, with the ="trms">affects of another body...” (what are the ="trms">affects of the ="trms">CG bodies='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-for them the “body” is a discontinuous and non-totalized series of processes, organs, flows, energies, corporeal substances and incorporeal events, intensities and durations, a surface of intensities='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pure simulacra without o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginals='strcls'>*

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="trms">erotogenic zones, sexuality, ="ppl">Freud, auto-="trms">erotic ="trms">internalization, clinamen

(the formally female cyborg / ="trms">techno-="trms">monster of the Ghost in the Shell='lgc'>:) the (masculinist) fantasy of leaving the body behind and reconstituting it as a a ="trms">technical object under human control as both a desire for perfect knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and total power and at the same time as a way of escape... ='lgc'>[="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert='lgc'>] ='at'>#="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of the “soul” is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read as the ="trms">question of (certain ="trms">technology of) power over bodiess

(traits of) cyborg='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. boundary transgression
="lstsrd">2. the recognition and re-scripting of myth
="lstsrd">3. simulations of identity
="lstsrd">4. coalitions of af="trms">finity


="large lg5" stl="font-size:165%"> re="trms">embodiment of intelligence


="ppl">Hubert > ="ppl">Serres='lgc'>: “My body (I cannot help it) is not plunged into a single, ="trms">specified space. It works in ="ppl">Euclidean space, but it only works there. It sees in a projective space; it touches, caresses, and feels in a topological space; it suffers in another; hears and ="trms">communicates in a third; and so forth, as far as one wishes to go. ="ppl">Euclidean space was chosen in our work-oriented cultures because it is the space of work='lgc'>--of the mason, the surveyor, or the architect. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] My body lives in as many spaces as the ="trms">society, the group, or the collectivity have formed='lgc'>: the ="ppl">Euclidean house, the street and its ="trms">network, the open and closed garden, the church or the enclosed spaces of the sacred, the school and its spatial varieties containing fixed points, and the complex ensemb[...]