37 days ago by ailsa

I haven’t posted for a while because I have been busy preparing for my upgrade to PhD in which I was successful, so all the hard work paid off in that respect. I have written a first chapter in which I have been investigating aspects of embodiments of memory in the research pedagogy of Goat Island P ...

38 days ago by interawakening

Embodiment is no small feat. It is, however, your birthright. In my view, we get born into bodies as our souls pour into these infamous “skin bags,” but becoming fully embodied is not a given. Even relatively minor traumas or unsupportive primary family environments may halt full embodiment as state ...

44 days ago by designabilities

Dear friends Liebe Freunde Caras amigos A healthy, successful and happy 2012 to all of you (especially those we haven’t met this year)! Euch allen (insbesondere denen, die wir in diesem Jahr leider nicht treffen konnten) sowie einen sicheren Rutsch in ein gesundes, erfolgreiches und von Humor gepräg ...

46 days ago by C. Martín

I couldn't agree more with Sandra Halverson when, in her post of 19 October 2011, she claims that translation would benefit from adopting integrated, non-dualistic approaches. Perhaps such approaches could help us solve difficulties like those humorously depicted by Jorge Amigo (see his posts on 21 ...

47 days ago by Michael Coffey

Sermon for Christmas Eve 2011 Michael Coffey Luke 2:1-20 John 1:1-14 This somewhat silent and beautiful holy night, we come together again to hear an ancient nativity story and contemplate some odd claims about God. We come together again, not so differently from how we come together most of the tim ...

51 days ago by embodhiment

with themes of endings, death, and space… beholding a family member’s relatively permanent departure from the body… a warm southern december day for a funeral expected tomorrow… expected… tomorrow… Filed under: death, embodiment, family, life, out-of-doors, Uncategorized, without walls

52 days ago by Paul

An upcoming event with which I have a minor involvement is the 4th incarnation of the AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, which is due to take place in Birmingham, U.K., between the 2nd and 6th of July 2012. The AISB convention is this year being held in conjunction with the International As ...

53 days ago by Enarm

Telegraph.co.uk Kim Jong Il: Revered at home; remembered outside as repressive CNN By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — North Korea's longtime leader Kim Jong Il, the embodiment of the reclusive state where his cult of personality is deeply entrenched, has died. Regarded as one of the world's most-repressi ...

57 days ago by Jim Watts

I recently responded to a query on the SHARP discussion list that may be of interest: My SHARP query: in conjunction with my research on graphic novels, I'm looking at the normative act of reading--how readers are supposed to use their hands, not move their heads, NOT move their lips, not move their ...

58 days ago by Michael Sacasas

Here is David Nye again, this time on the embodied character of our tool use and of our knowledge of technology: “Tools are known through the body at least as much as they are understood through the mind. The proper use of kitchen utensils and other tools is handed down primarily through direct obse ...