Maurice Merleau-Ponty observed that consciousness exists in the world and experience of things in the world exist in consciousness. We similarly believe that the physiological foundations of perception exist in the world and can be acted upon. As way of argument, we describe the experience of several devices that manipulate the precepts. Such devices act on consciousness but also the set of thi...

before. Maurice was first referred to the Clinic from the Nervous Dispensary of the University Hospital because of suspected mental deficiency. He could not get along in school and his mother was compelled to take him out entirely, because of peculiar motions he constantly made with his hands before his face. Moreover, he was very queer and hyper-suggestible. If he were walking along the street...

1 MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. 2 Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC. 3 INSERM U687-IFR69, Hôpital National de Saint-Maurice, Saint-Maurice, France. 4 Dunedin School of Medicine...

The purpose of this writing is to tell something about the quite unique and fundamental role of Maurice Nivat, both in launching ICALP and EATCS, as well as in guiding them through the di/cult early stages. Our account is based on personal recollections, as well as some original documents and letters. To preserve the personal character of our recollections, we have not tried to 2ll the gaps in ...

Resumen: El texto propone un diálogo entre fenomenología y teoría crítica, concretamente en Merleau-Ponty Adorno. Sostenemos que la labor asignada por ellos a filosofía pone evidencia una concepción dialéctica de experiencia se reivindica el sentido ésta como viva (lebendige Erfahrung). No obstante las fuertes objeciones dirigidas Adorno, Horkheimer Marcuse, identificamos modo introducción nega...

The emerging field of wearable technology posits a challenge to existing frameworks of fashion theory. Its merging of fashion and technology invites us to more thoroughly reflect on the way in which garments influence the perceptivity of the body. Proposing the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as a methodological and conceptual framework for the study of wearable techno...

Aims: to comprehend how people who live with chronic venous ulcers perceive their existence towards these lesions; to describe and analyse, from the perspective of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, how these people comprehend their own existence. Method: this is a study of a qualitative approach using a descriptive phenomenological method. Study setting: Outpatient Wound Healing Centre of the teac...