Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Corpus : Propositions/Proofs and the situatedness of an environment

Architectural Body/An organism that persons

Organism, Person, Environment : Madeline Gins and Arakawa






You cannot see me from where I look at myself 

Francesca Woodman


Therefore the idea of the human body is composed of the many ideas of the component parts.

The idea which  constitutes the formal being  of the human mind is the idea of the body, which is composed of many indi­viduals,  each  composed  of many  parts.

(Ethics, Part II, Proposition XV, Proof)


Camouflage : Neil Leach

Mimesis

Sensuous Correspondence

Sympathetic Magic

Mimicry

Becoming


Mimesis : Paradox or Encounter. Jane Bennett












Yet,  freed  from the block, the relations between her and everything which was not her had changed. An absolute yet invisible change. She was now the centre of what surrounded her. All that was not her made space for her.

Where there are no  words, knowledge comes through  physical acts and  through  the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred  meaning  upon  it and  no  further meaning  was necessary.

John Berger


We sense and experience that we are eternal. For the mind no less senses those things which it conceives in understanding than those which it has in the memory. For the eyes of the mind by which it sees things and observes them are proofs. So although we do not remember that we existed before the body, we sense nevertheless that our mind in so far as it involves the essence of the body under a species of eternity is eternal and its existence cannot be defined by time or explained by duration.

(Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Proposition XXIII)

Situatedness is a theoretical position that posits that the mind is ontologically and functionally intertwined within environmental, social, and cultural factors. As such, psychological functions are best understood as constituted by the close coupling between the agent and the environment.

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