Feel It in Your Bones - Bourdieusian bodyworlds and verisimilitude
The Triumph of Fame “We learn bodily. The social order inscribes itself in bodies through this permanent confrontation, which may be more or less dramatic but is always largely marked by affectivity and, more precisely, by affective transactions with the environment…The most serious social injunctions are addressed not to the intellect but to the body, treated as a ‘memory pad.’ The essential part of the learning of masculinity and femininity tends to inscribe the difference between the genders in bodies (especially through clothing), in the form of ways of walking, talking, standing, looking, sitting, etc. ” - Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations I have no evidence to back this up but recently it feels like more and more folks have been talking about how “hollow” the thought-worlds of a lot of fantasy and sci-fi stuff can be - the sort of disquieting insubstantiality that flows from an unwillingness to seriously engage with alterity on its terms. The impetus for starting the blog