Earthbodies : rediscovering our planetary senses / Glen A. Mazis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazis, Glen A., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Earth bodies

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Summary:

Shows how our cultural misconceptions about the body distort its capacities and lead to personal and social ills.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Earthly Dance of Interconnection 1

Moving Earth and Flowing Flesh 1

Dancing versus Diabolical Logic 7

Addicted to Self-Laceration 12

Earthbody Sense 17

Ceremonial Awareness 23

Chapter 2 Earthbody Dimensions 33

We Are Time 33

Sensing Enters the Earth 44

Eroticism Truly 57

Chapter 3 Discordant Contemporary Rhythms 77

Introduction: Detachment as a Curse upon the Land 77

Ghouls: Our Love of Horror and Compulsion to Consume 79

Vampires: Hunger for Experience and Fear of Intimacy 87

Aesthetes: Obsession with Novelty and Control 96

Who Has the Last Laugh? 111

Chapter 4 Cyberspace: Rootedness versus Being in Orbit 119

Introduction: A Different Kind of Materialism 119

Cyberspace: A Material and Embodied Place in the World 121

The Virtual Is the Heart of Reality 131

Cyborg Life: Protean Selves versus Fragmented Selves 139

Deep-rooted Emotion versus Cyberspace Sentimentality 156

Chapter 5 Planetary Meaningfulness 179

Introduction: The World Is Our "Out of Body" Body 179

Animals and Humans as Part of the Same Dream 181

Animals and Vitality, Morality, Spirituality, and Play 190

Traditional Western Ethics as a Perverse Reaction to the Planet 199

Chapter 6 Rejoining the Planet 211

An Earthbody Ethics of Achieving Presence and Co-presence 211

Patterns of Perversity in Flight from Pain 221

Rhythm's Power, Changing Destructive Patterns, and Finding Place 227

A Dynamic Sense of the Depth of Surfaces 235

Responsibility, Reverberating Resonance, and Joy 241

Afterword: A Poem 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791454177

0791454185

OCLC:

47838507