Gesture, Landscape and Embrace: A Phenomenological Analysis of Elemental Motions
Gesture, Landscape and Embrace: A Phenomenological Analysis of Elemental Motions
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手势、风景和拥抱：元素运动的现象学分析
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10.1080/20797222.2006.11433914
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2006
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Stephen Smith
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摘要莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂的“世界的肉体”讲述了与我们深入、原始、基本居住的空间的具体联系。肉暗示水和它的循环，空气和它的呼吸，地球和它的构造，火和它的灵感。肉体讲述了我们与超人类世界元素的身体关系。本文探讨了这些关系的感受到的必要性，正如梅洛-庞蒂所说，“所有的距离都被穿越”，其中运动并不是专门出现在身体中，而是在身体与世界的联系和交织中。有一个首要的运动，登记在活的身体在其肉体的联系，以世界的肉的元素。这种分析所追求的对“世界的肉体”的“彻底反思”反过来又与手势的相互作用和联系的一般领域有关，它提供了这样一种见解，即肉体的亲密手势，如拥抱，是原始的协调、节奏和相互作用的运动，是从世界中发出的，是对世界的认同。拥抱从根本上说，是一种景观居住的手势。元素运动的现象学提供了文本提醒，在各种景观中自在意味着知道在人类内部，尤其是在世界的超人类褶皱中，身体上，感官上被拥抱是什么。
Abstract Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ‘flesh of the world’ speaks to an embodied connection to the spaces we inhabit deeply, primally, elementally. Flesh suggests water and its circulations, air and its respirations, earth and its conformations, fire and its inspirations. Flesh speaks to our bodily relations with the elements of a more-than-human world. This paper explores the felt imperative to these relations where, as Merleau-Ponty put it, ‘all distance is traversed’ and wherein movement arises not specifically in the body, but in the nexus and intertwining of bodily engagement with the world. There is a primacy to movement that registers in the living body in its carnal ties to the elements of the world’s flesh. The ‘radical reflection’ on the ‘flesh of the world’ to which this analysis aspires in turn bears upon the general field of gestural reciprocities and connections, providing the insight that intimate gestures of the flesh, such as the embrace, are primordial attunements, motions of rhythm and reciprocity, that emanate from the world in identification with it. The embrace is fundamentally, elementally, a gesture of landscape dwelling. A phenomenology of elemental motions provides the textual reminder that to be at home in various landscapes means to know what it is to be embraced corporeally, sensually, within the human and especially the more-than-human folds of the world.