Beyond the Individual Body
Spinoza's Radical Enactivism and You Were Never Really Here
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21833486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesco Sticchi (0000-0001-9241-9666, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-36 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Projections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-9688 • E-ISSN: 1934-9696 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/proj.2020.140103 |
| OpenAlex | W3015497244 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Since the emergence of embodied cognitive theories, there has been an ever-growing interest in the application of these theories to media studies, generating a large number of analyses focusing on the affective and intellectual features of viewers’ participation. The body of the viewer has become the central object of study for film and media scholars, who examine the conceptual physicality of the viewing experience by associating body states with parallel intellectual and moral constructions. In this article, I contribute to the study of embodied cognition and cinema by drawing upon Baruch Spinoza's philosophy, especially from his process-based notion of the body. I will put this ecological and dynamic concept of the body in connection with recent studies on enactive cognition, and define a radical enactivist approach to be applied in the discussion of the experiential dynamics of Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here
Aesthetics · Art · Autopoiesis · Cognition · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Enactivism · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Media Influence and Health · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |