Corporeality : emergent consciousness within its spatial dimensions / Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk ; Aart Jan Bergshoeff, cover design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Öztürk, Maya Nanitchkova, author.

Contributor:

Bergshoeff, Aart Jan, cover designer.

Series:

Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 39.

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 1879-6044 ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Memory (Philosophy).

Perception (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corporeality: Emergent consciousness within its spatial dimensions develops our understanding of what we can experience through our bodies in relation to the space around us. Rather than considering architecture as being about manifestation and mediation of fixed meanings, the book focuses instead on architectural space as a field that envelopes us incessantly, intimately, and affectively. We are in immediate contact with that space, and the way we relate to it determines how we are able to grasp the realities of the social and material worlds around us. This enquiry considers architectural space and its impact on and relation to us from a range of disciplines and perspectives, leading from space to sense and to sensibility. The theatre becomes a central point of reference on this journey, allowing us to understand how space “works” by linking concrete spatial conditions to corresponding “forms of experience”. It allows showing how the ways we feel, think, and act emerge from within the rich texture of the pre-conscious and non-contemplative. That texture is induced and nourished by our bodily encounters with space. Offering a view of how immediate experience is generated in the body, this book enhances empirical research into the links between space, body, experience and consciousness.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The ‘lived’: from ‘body’ to the body with space

From ‘lived space’ and experience to the materiality of experience

Contextualizing corporeality: theatre space between mediation and generation of experience

From space to sense—to sensibility

Discussion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

The Theatre Mode of Spatial Organization: An Analytical Framework.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1083-7

OCLC:

879551393

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210836 DOI