The inscribed sensory body: The asynchronous maps of the embodied spaces in mobile Media Age

The Body and its Limit: Body Rhythms, Social Rhythms in the Information Society

Abstract

The body is the compass of  mind. The nature of mind must be understood on the basis of its origin, the process of its becoming, by the biological mechanism of trial and error endlessy at work. Like all living organisms, the human body is organized according to a specific time structure, where all vital functions show a temporal variability which can be described by periodic functions ranging in the length of their cycle from milliseconds to months or years, even decades. The importance of this time structure for a normal function-ning has been established in many branches of human physiology. The “timekeepers” involved are as different as stopwatches and sundials. Some are accurate and inflexible, others less reliable but subject to conscious control. This paper will try to prove, by experimental samples highly patterned by the “hidden level of culture”– a set of unspoken, implicit rules of behavior and thoughts that controls everything you do. [Hall, T.H. (1989), The Dance of Life, New York, Anchor books),  that rhythm is the ultimate dynamic building block in not only personality, but also communication and health. Rhythm is, indeed, the very essence of time, since equal intervals of time define a sequence of events as rhythmic. In the sense the rhythm is used here, it includes much more than the productions of musicians and dancers, although they are part of this process too. If behavior of this sort could be identified trough the study of man’s use of space, what might we expect to find in the study of time?