Disembodied Mind

1971 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-233
Author(s):  
MARJORIE B. CREELMAN
Keyword(s):  
Disembodied Mind

Sedimentation of Habits and Orienting Experiences

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Peckruhn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Race Perception ◽  
The World ◽  
Disembodied Mind ◽  
Perceptual Orientation

Chapter 4 pivots around experiences of race, and explores social and cultural habitation to sensory perceptions and meanings. It discusses the sensorium of race perception beyond the visual, and provides historical and cultural examples of how perceiving bodily Others emerges in and is maintained by sensory experiences. It explores how understanding our orientations and perspectives on the world as fundamentally embedded in and emerging from our bodily manner of existence allows us to begin grasping how it is not reason or intellectual reflection alone by which we can address perceptual alignments that might appear problematic to us. Habits and socio-cultural practices are not simply matters of belief or conviction held in a disembodied mind, but are embedded within our bodily perceptual orientation.

Why Is(n’t) Ambient so White?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Szabo
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
White Men ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
Ambient Music ◽  
Disembodied Mind ◽  
Media Discourses

This chapter investigates why white and light-skinned artists have long dominated representations of ambient music, a popular (sub)genre of electronic music and style of EDM, within anglophone EDM scenes and media discourses. It explores how early discourses on ambient implicitly shaped the genre’s aesthetics around idealizations of hip highbrow and high-middlebrow white masculinity. Starting in the 1970s and 80s, these discourses tacitly disregarded the relevance of genres racialized as non-white to ambient’s ideals of aesthetic experimentation, affective detachment, cerebral introspection, and physical ease. EDM-oriented discourses reified the putative whiteness of this formation in the early 1990s by repeatedly attaching the ambient label to the expressions of white men while describing the music, by way of a racialized and gendered mind-body binary, as the “beatless” emanation of disembodied mind(s), rather than of individuals. This history illuminates how popular genres become racialized through feedback loops of musical production and discursive categorization. In the course of tracing this history, the author proposes that a discursive framework of “strategic anti-genre-essentialism,” which positions genres as processes rather than categories, may help to undermine essentialist assumptions about music and race without dismissing them.

Sonic Bodies

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Periodic Motion ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Visual Dominance ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Sound System ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Skilled Performance ◽  
Disembodied Mind

The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems stage dancehall sessions for the crowd to share the immediate, intensive and immersive visceral pleasures of sonic dominance. Sonic Bodies concentrates on the skilled performance of the crewmembers responsible for this signature sound of Jamaican music: the audio engineers designing, building and fine-tuning the hugely powerful "sets" of equipment; the selectors choosing the music tracks to play; and MCs(DJs) on the mic hyping up the crowd. Julian Henriques proposes that these dancehall "vibes" are taken literally as the periodic motion of vibrations. He offers an analysis of how a sound system operates - at auditory, corporeal and sociocultural frequencies. Sonic Bodies formulates a fascinating critique of visual dominance and the dualities inherent in ideas of image, text or discourse. This innovative book questions the assumptions that reason resides only in a disembodied mind, that communication is an exchange of information, and that meaning is only ever representation.

Mary Astell: Defender of the “Disembodied Mind”

Hypatia ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Bryson
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Major Premise ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Social Contracts ◽  
Intrinsic Difference ◽  
Mary Astell ◽  
Disembodied Mind

This paper demonstrates how Mary Astell's version of Cartesian dualism supports her disavowal of female subordination and traditional gender roles, her rejection of Locke's notion of “thinking matter” as a major premise for rejecting his political philosophy of “social contracts” between men and women, and, finally, her claim that there is no intrinsic difference between genders in terms of ratiocination, the primary assertion that grants her the title of the first female English feminist.

The End of Disembodied Mind

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Nancy K. Dess
Keyword(s):  
Disembodied Mind
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