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Embodiment and Cultural Differences
The book Embodiment and Cultural Differences, edited and introduced by the social scienists Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas S. Smith, proposes embodiment as a meeting point between memory and action: as such, it focuses on the “sensitive areas” enabling persons to action. How can we rule this crucial passage that affects the actual composition of social space, in both “acting body” and “functional mind”? The central point is what the sociologists of the body can do to integrate the more secure knowledge of brain science with social sciences in order to invent a new cross-culture, built up as a dynamic bridge between the elementary processes of memory and the everyday social interactions. The scope of the book includes the tension, fears and ambivalence affecting much of Europe, in the face of the waves of terrorist attacks and refugee influx, unprecedented in modern times; gender inequality and the increasingly universal movement to challenge and overcome it in the developing countries; the changing nature of the work in the postmodern world; violence and chaos in failing societies; tensions between cultural globalization and ethnic parochialism; challenges of urban life; religion in contemporary society; the multifaceted legacy of colonialism; and casting aside the limitations of a physical body in the age of hi-tech. What is, finally, embodiment, in light of the new consideration of the body as a fundamental element of consciousness and memory? According to the experimental construction of the book, each embodiment operation emerges as an experimental setting, consisting of the unrepeatable executive instant through which, like a musical score, the body synchronizes human consciousness with the context of action. Within this pair, changing in world history, each body performs the extraordinary complex of movements available in time, before doing so in space. The most valuable resource human beings possess is time. Only those who invest in it can aspire to accumulate real and resounding wealth in any sphere, including the economic one.
The book Embodiment and Cultural Differences, edited and introduced by the social scienists Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas S. Smith, proposes embodiment as a meeting point between memory and action: as such, it focuses on the “sensitive areas” enabling persons to action. How can we rule this crucial passage that affects the actual composition of social space, in both “acting body” and “functional mind”? The central point is what the sociologists of the body can do to integrate the more secure knowledge of brain science with social sciences in order to invent a new cross-culture, built up as a dynamic bridge between the elementary processes of memory and the everyday social interactions. The scope of the book includes the tension, fears and ambivalence affecting much of Europe, in the face of the waves of terrorist attacks and refugee influx, unprecedented in modern times; gender inequality and the increasingly universal movement to challenge and overcome it in the developing countries; the changing nature of the work in the postmodern world; violence and chaos in failing societies; tensions between cultural globalization and ethnic parochialism; challenges of urban life; religion in contemporary society; the multifaceted legacy of colonialism; and casting aside the limitations of a physical body in the age of hi-tech. What is, finally, embodiment, in light of the new consideration of the body as a fundamental element of consciousness and memory? According to the experimental construction of the book, each embodiment operation emerges as an experimental setting, consisting of the unrepeatable executive instant through which, like a musical score, the body synchronizes human consciousness with the context of action. Within this pair, changing in world history, each body performs the extraordinary complex of movements available in time, before doing so in space. The most valuable resource human beings possess is time. Only those who invest in it can aspire to accumulate real and resounding wealth in any sphere, including the economic one.
Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas Spence Smith
. The book Embodiment and Cultural Differences, edited and introduced by the social scienist Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas S. Smith, proposes embodiment as a meeting point between memory and action: as such, it focuses on the “sensitive areas” enabling persons to action. How can we rule this crucial passage that affects the actual composition of social space, in both “acting body” and “functional mind”? The central point is what the sociologists of the body can do to integrate the more secure knowledge of brain science with social sciences in order to invent a new cross-culture, built up as a dynamic bridge between the elementary processes of memory and the everyday social interactions. The scope of the book includes the tension, fears and ambivalence affecting much of Europe, in the face of the waves of terrorist attacks and refugee influx, unprecedented in modern times; gender inequality and the increasingly universal movement to challenge and overcome it in the developing countries; the changing nature of the work in the postmodern world; violence and chaos in failing societies; tensions between cultural globalization and ethnic parochialism; challenges of urban life; religion in contemporary society; the multifaceted legacy of colonialism; and casting aside the limitations of a physical body in the age of hi-tech. What is, finally, embodiment, in light of the new consideration of the body as a fundamental element of consciousness and memory? According to the experimental construction of the book, each embodiment operation emerges as an experimental setting, consisting of the unrepeatable executive instant through which, like a musical score, the body synchronizes human consciousness with the context of action. Within this pair, changing in world history, each body performs the extraordinary complex of movements available in time, before doing so in space. The most valuable resource human beings possess is time. Only those who invest in it can aspire to accumulate real and resounding wealth in any sphere, including the economic one.