In this paper I will give a phenomenological account of embodied presence through computer game avatars, based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of bodily intentionality, bodily space and bodily extensions (2002 [1962]. The core idea is that when we play, directly controllable avatars like Mario or Lara Croft, as well as racing cars or other kinds of controllable vehicles, function as prosthe...

manufacturer advised: ‘Insert the Artificial Hymen into your vagina carefully. . . . When your lover penetrates, it will ooze out a liquid that appears like blood, not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groans and you will pass through undetectable!’ The other major theme in the book is the relationship between the body and metaphor. We have ‘gut instincts’; we tell peop...

In this article, I describe the experience of dancing-a-walk. My specific focus is on the shift that I perceive in my body when I dance-a-walk rather than functionally walking. Following a firstperson perspective, I demonstrate how my experience of practicing dancing-a-walk interrogates the habit of walking and makes it come alive again as an expression of the body. First, I show how the practi...

The potential relationship between external and internal spaces in the architectural environment of post-pandemic era is emerging as an essential issue. Since early 20th century, issue transparency inside outside architecture has been explored various fields. This study motivated by lack a leading theory about era. First, it revisits notion phenomenal Colin Rowe Robert Slutzky’s influential tex...

Abstract. This article aims to provide an introduction the phenomenologically and anthropologically grounded philosophy of a „lived corporeality“ that can be connected human geography – in order enable deeper understanding our human-environment relationship other spatial aspects life-world. Until present, Phenomenology Philosophical Anthropology play marginal role as source knowledge social fac...

Central figures in the phenomenological tradition, such as Aron Gurwitsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, drew extensively on gestalt psychology their writings. The dialogue between phenomenology they began continues today field of embodied cognitive science. We take up this conversation starting from Gurwitsch’s rich analysis perception cultural world. descriptions world bear a s...

The article examines how some culturally shared and corporeally enacted beliefs and norms about sexed and racialized embodiment can form embodied agency, and this with the aid of the concepts of incorporation and excorporation. It discusses how the phenomenological concept of excorporation can help us examine painful experiences of how one's lived body breaks in the encounter with others. The a...

Body integrity identity disorder (BIID), formerly also known as apotemnophilia, is characterized by a desire for amputation of a healthy limb and is claimed to straddle or to even blur the boundary between psychiatry and neurology. The neurological line of approach, however, is a recent one, and is accompanied or preceded by psychodynamical, behavioural, philosophical, and psychiatric approache...

Qualitative approach about the implications that occur succeeding premature loss teeth is still insufficient. This study aimed to understand experience of early deciduous in children's lives, from perspective their caregivers. case included 52 caregivers children an outpatient service a public university south Brazil. Early trauma or caries was identified through analysis health records, and af...