A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual
Mirror neurons are specialized neurons which echo the movements perceived in another's body in incipient movements in one's own body, in a kind of involuntary kinesthetic empathy. Their discovery has given rise to a far-reaching reassessment in cognitive science, the arts, and the humaniti...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2016-04-01
|
| Series: | Galáxia |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/26462 |
| _version_ | 1819261347651649536 |
|---|---|
| author | Briam Massumi |
| author_facet | Briam Massumi |
| author_sort | Briam Massumi |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Mirror neurons are specialized neurons which echo the movements perceived in another's body in incipient movements in one's own body, in a kind of involuntary kinesthetic empathy. Their discovery has given rise to a far-reaching reassessment in cognitive science, the arts, and the humanities of the role of empathy and the self-other relation in the constitutionof the sense of self. Mirror-touch synesthesia (when a perceived touch to another's body elicits in the perceiver the sensation of being similarly touched) is one of the forms this "empathy" takes. This article takes mirror-touch synesthesia as a jumping-off point to reconsider synesthesia as a whole, and in particular its relation to empathy, and the relation of empathy to movement. It is argued that the usual vocabulary used to analyze these issues -- identification, body image, defect or "confusion" in the body's spatial schema -- are vitiated by a cognitivist bias which carries presuppositions that obscure the complexity of the emergent organization of experience. A philosophical rethinking is necessary as a corrective. The article undertakes this project with the aid of process-oriented philosophers C.S. Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A.N. Whitehead, proposing a framework centering on the notion of a "virtual body" composed of the integral mutual inclusion of potential qualities of experience which are selectively "composed" in movement. The emphasis on the performative self-composition of experience involves replacing the prevailing model of cognition with a fundamentally aesthetic model.
Keywor |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-23T19:40:22Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-e1b0fdb9b26d4edbbc4fea96bf4e8698 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1982-2553 1982-2553 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-23T19:40:22Z |
| publishDate | 2016-04-01 |
| publisher | Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Galáxia |
| spelling | doaj.art-e1b0fdb9b26d4edbbc4fea96bf4e86982022-12-21T17:33:41ZengPontíficia Universidade Católica de São PauloGaláxia1982-25531982-25532016-04-01163152110.1590/1982-2554201612646A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtualBriam Massumi0University of MontrealMirror neurons are specialized neurons which echo the movements perceived in another's body in incipient movements in one's own body, in a kind of involuntary kinesthetic empathy. Their discovery has given rise to a far-reaching reassessment in cognitive science, the arts, and the humanities of the role of empathy and the self-other relation in the constitutionof the sense of self. Mirror-touch synesthesia (when a perceived touch to another's body elicits in the perceiver the sensation of being similarly touched) is one of the forms this "empathy" takes. This article takes mirror-touch synesthesia as a jumping-off point to reconsider synesthesia as a whole, and in particular its relation to empathy, and the relation of empathy to movement. It is argued that the usual vocabulary used to analyze these issues -- identification, body image, defect or "confusion" in the body's spatial schema -- are vitiated by a cognitivist bias which carries presuppositions that obscure the complexity of the emergent organization of experience. A philosophical rethinking is necessary as a corrective. The article undertakes this project with the aid of process-oriented philosophers C.S. Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A.N. Whitehead, proposing a framework centering on the notion of a "virtual body" composed of the integral mutual inclusion of potential qualities of experience which are selectively "composed" in movement. The emphasis on the performative self-composition of experience involves replacing the prevailing model of cognition with a fundamentally aesthetic model. Keyworhttp://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/26462Virtual bodyempathysympathyproprioceptionmirror-touch synesthesiarelational art. |
| spellingShingle | Briam Massumi A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual Galáxia Virtual body empathy sympathy proprioception mirror-touch synesthesia relational art. |
| title | A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual |
| title_full | A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual |
| title_fullStr | A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual |
| title_full_unstemmed | A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual |
| title_short | A arte do corpo relacional: do espelho-tátil ao corpo virtual |
| title_sort | arte do corpo relacional do espelho tatil ao corpo virtual |
| topic | Virtual body empathy sympathy proprioception mirror-touch synesthesia relational art. |
| url | http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/26462 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT briammassumi aartedocorporelacionaldoespelhotatilaocorpovirtual AT briammassumi artedocorporelacionaldoespelhotatilaocorpovirtual |