A Sensing Body - A Networked Mind

Adrienne Hart (author)

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Title	A Sensing Body - A Networked Mind
Contributor	Adrienne Hart (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0098.1.20
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-2/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Hart, Adrienne
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2015-04-09
Long abstract	An inbuilt desire to stray from the path, across the grass in a city park, is one example of how the learned or ‘schooled’ body misbehaves. I’m interested in the tension between our body’s social contract and hard-wired collective behaviour. I’m also interested in what happens when the mind no longer requires a body to communicate. When we sit at a desk computer or peer into a smartphone, our minds log in and our sense of embodied self rapidly decreases. The networked mind locks into a network stream and sends itself to locations far from the host body’s reach. How relevant is the body in an age that allows minds to roam free? Should we fight for the notion of body or are we already floating around in corpses, our vessels proving only to serve some kind of nod or nostalgic reflection to the past?
Page range	pp. 173–176
Print length	4 pages
Language	English (Original)

An inbuilt desire to stray from the path, across the grass in a city park, is one example of how the learned or ‘schooled’ body misbehaves. I’m interested in the tension between our body’s social contract and hard-wired collective behaviour. I’m also interested in what happens when the mind no longer requires a body to communicate. When we sit at a desk computer or peer into a smartphone, our minds log in and our sense of embodied self rapidly decreases. The networked mind locks into a network stream and sends itself to locations far from the host body’s reach. How relevant is the body in an age that allows minds to roam free? Should we fight for the notion of body or are we already floating around in corpses, our vessels proving only to serve some kind of nod or nostalgic reflection to the past?