Equivocations of the Body and Cosmic Arts
An Experiment in Polyrealism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Skafish |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 135-148 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2020.1790845 |
| OpenAlex | W3047028097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Are techniques of the body always of the body, and in what sense are they techniques? A response to Yuk Hui’s The Question Concerning Technology in China, this essay takes the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine and qi gong as an exemplary case in order to show how some bodies may be more cosmic than physiological and how their corresponding techniques might work not only with but right from the cosmos. To do this, it turns the ontological relativism of anthropology on that discipline’s concepts of the body and body techniques and then takes an initial, experimental step toward a “polyrealist” approach to thinking the existence of unreal things and arts of working with them
Art · Art history · Astronomy · COSMIC cancer database · Cosmos (plant · Epistemology · Physics · Relativism · The arts · Visual arts · Chinese history and philosophy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |