Aristoteles # Magee (Sense Organs and the Activity of Sensation in Aristotle) B
SENSE, SENSATION AND AFFECT
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SENSE, SENSATION AND AFFECT
“We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds.”
Lygia Clark
In the writing of Jean-Luc Nancy, sense cuts across the grain of thinking.Sense is what creates the possibility of representations and as suchis a mode of circulation within which spacings of exposure occur. It isthat which determines direction, provides for the density of andco-extensivity of things. As beings we do not have sense, but rather, weare sense.
“Body is the total signifier…”
“Sign of itself and being-itselfof the sign: this is the doubleformula of the body in all its states,in all its possibilities.”
Jean-Luc Nancy Corpus
The Victorious Youth 310 BC
With Aristotle knowledge begins with sense perceptions and therebyconnects experience to matter and form.
Shiva Nataraja, CholaSouth India
Jiun Onko 1718-1804Seated Bodhidharma
Titian,Flaying of Marysas, 1570’s
“the body is a most peculiar “thing,” for it is
never quite reducible to being merely a
thing; nor does it ever quite manage to rise
above the status of thing. Thus it is both a
thing and a nonthing, an object which
somehow contains or coexists with an
interiority, an object able to take itself and
others as subjects, a unique kind of object
not reducible to other objects.”
Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies
“our eyes are not only articulate organs of sight; they are also the emotionally expressive organs of crying… Is it merely an accidental or contingent fact that eyes are capable of crying as well as seeing? Or is crying in the most intimate, most closely touching relationship to seeing? What is the ontological significance of crying as a mode of visionary being?”
David Michael Levin The Opening of Vision
Pablo PicassoWeeping Woman1937
Marlene Dumas,For Whom the Bells Toll
Emotion from Latin e….movere: to move out, to migrate, to transport an object
Emotions are related to expression which exists prior to the distinction of body and mind
Emotion is a projection or display of feeling and can be feigned
Emotion is psychological whereas affect is physiological
Feelings connote both physiological sensations (affects) and psychological states (emotions)
Feelings are sensations measured against previous experiences. Feelings are personal..
Affects are not structured by narratives or interpretations
Passion has an intense goal orientated quality. Requires the quality of compulsion
Pathos is emotion for the other
Pathos is the combination of representation and intensity
Intensities are free-floating and impersonal
Intensions have a representational content
Francesca WoodmanSelf-Portrait Talking to Vince1975-8
Willem de KooningRosy-Fingered Dawn atLouse Point, 1963
Ana Mendieta
For Merleau-Ponty both the world and the body share a common existential
ground, general medium or element of materiality which he called flesh. Subject
and object inhabit each other, with flesh connoting the structure of reversibility.
In this schema all things are both passive and active in turn, likewise inside and
outside rotate sense. This intertwining of the subjective body and the objective
world gives us a vision of the world in which subtle levels of movement within
differentiation are always apparent. We might observe ways in which our
subjective body image can be materialized objectively through a transfer of
“postural schema.” Flesh cannot be reduced to matter, or to being, but rather is
the tie that binds them together, a “midway between the spatio-temporal
individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle.” Even though body and
world are different there is a form of reversibility that is capable of acting upon
and being acted upon.
“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind.Then there is abiding in the Seer’s own form.”
Patanjali
Instead of a body of definite structures and organs we have a body of flows, points and confluences. Chakras, channels, chi, etheric and subtle bodies, polarities, auras are all partof a network of invisible forces describing quite another sense of the body. The first structurederives from a mechanical world view that separates component operations of the bodyand the other is drawn from ancient wholistic philosophies largely Eastern in origin.