This review focuses on the subtle interactions between sensory input and social cognition in visual perception. We suggest that body indices, such as gait and posture, can mediate such interactions. ...Recent trends in cognitive research are trying to overcome approaches that define perception as stimulus-centered and are pointing toward a more embodied agent-dependent perspective. According to this view, perception is a constructive process in which sensory inputs and motivational systems contribute to building an image of the external world. A key notion emerging from new theories on perception is that the body plays a critical role in shaping our perception. Depending on our arm's length, height and capacity of movement, we create our own image of the world based on a continuous compromise between sensory inputs and expected behavior. We use our bodies as natural "rulers" to measure both the physical and the social world around us. We point out the necessity of an integrative approach in cognitive research that takes into account the interplay between social and perceptual dimensions. To this end, we review long-established and novel techniques aimed at measuring bodily states and movements, and their perception, with the assumption that only by combining the study of visual perception and social cognition can we deepen our understanding of both fields.
Many animal societies display relational logic and collective practices that can be compared to those of humans, as it has been noticed by ethology. Contemporary artists have considered a transfer ...between human and animal susceptible to question the phenomenology of a social group. For some of them, like Greta Alfaro, the human ritual can be re-read - or reviewed - through animal. The vulture or the wild boar prove to be the involontary accomplices of an investigation on practices which we could consider specific to the human being. And therefore, they so allow to open the area of a common heritage.
The article deals with the analysis of the corporeality of Russian vampires, naturalized in the domestic serial cinema at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The vampire was a ...marginal character in the Russian cultural tradition of the 19th century, combining folkloric traits with stable motifs of the Western Gothic novel. In Soviet culture, he was a total stranger, since he belonged to the subcensorship theme of mysticism and anti-Soviet propaganda. The vampire expansion of the 1990s strengthened the vampire myth as a Westernized project that assimilated poorly and slowly into domestic soil. Only a reinterpretation of the Soviet Union's image as part of Soviet nostalgia led to a flowering of the national vampire theme. This investigation is aimed at assembling the social body of the vampire clan (Vampires of the Middle Zone, 2021, 2022) into a single whole by means of Soviet nostalgia, which requires us to reconsider the contemporary trends in the dynamics of the canonical corporeality of the vampire in Western mass culture and to apply them to the Soviet-oriented model of Russian history. The author demonstrates the peculiarities of the Smolensk vampire's corporeality. It is interpreted as a tool of his adaptation to human society and, at the same time, the formation of his own family sociality. The author concludes that sovietism is a way of distributing the clan's social functions and a strategy of axiological marking of personal relationships.
Body and Odors: Not Just Molecules, After All Pazzaglia, Mariella
Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society,
08/2015, Letnik:
24, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Interpersonal interactions are primarily mediated through vision. However, crucial information concerning other individuals is also captured through different senses. New evidence suggests that body ...odors can implicitly initiate, filter, and guide the integrated perceptions that characterize real human impressions. Human body-odor processing helps rapidly differentiate kin from friends and friends from foes, as well as identify potential threats or increase alertness to the proximity of strangers, thereby guiding social preference. Body odors, which are potent sources of discriminative, affective, and motor knowledge, elicit neural activity partly or exclusively outside the primary olfactory cortices in the brain areas responsible for the processing of social information, which are activated by equivalent visual signals. Body odors, which can act as an authenticator of truth and are reliably invoked to shape social relations, require us to revise our view of the traditional body-communication models.
In September 1973, a coup d’état in Chile established a new order. The interruption of a democratic government was explained through the metaphors of disease: the country was sick; a cancer was ...corroding the nation. To cure it, it was necessary to extirpate the evil at its roots, for only in this way would restoration and “national reconstruction” be achieved. The language spread with medical explanations that stressed the need to intervene in the individual and social body. Alongside these medical explanations appeared the “cleansing operations”, whichappealed not only to the disappearance of Marxism in its symbolic dimension, but also in its material aspect, whose most tragic effect was the disappearance of thousands of people. Through these operations an attempt was made to establish an aesthetic for the new society and its living spaces, signified by a neat, disciplined and ordered world order, where the “contaminating” elements had to be eradicated. Representative democracy was the system that had allowed the spread of the disease. Therefore, it had to be replaced.This paper shows how the press adopted these discourses that moved between the disease of the body, rehabilitation, and the dissemination of preventive measures in a hygienic key. For this purpose, the newspapers El Mercurio, La Tercera and Ercilla Magazine will be reviewed. However, in order to understand the use of these metaphors during the dictatorship, attention must be paid to the place that the body had in the Popular Unity project. The analysis incorporates studies on the imaginaries of illness (Sontag, 2013; Arendt 2006; Delich 2013 and Iazzeta 2013), the role of symbolic production in politics (Balandier, 1994; Eco, 2015) and the link between body and revolutionary or disciplined youth.
En septiembre de 1973 un Golpe de Estado en Chile instauró un nuevo orden. La interrupción de un gobierno democrático se explicó a través de las metáforas de la enfermedad: el país estaba enfermo, un cáncer corroía a la nación. Para sanarlo había que extirpar el mal de raíz, pues sólo así se alcanzaría la restauración y “reconstrucción nacional”. El lenguaje se propagó de explicaciones médicas que subrayaban la necesidad de intervenir el cuerpo individual y social. Junto a estas metáforas aparecieron las “operaciones limpieza” que apelaron no sólo a la desaparición del marxismo en su dimensión simbólica, sino también en su aspecto material, cuyo efecto más trágico fue la desaparición de miles de personas. A través de estas operaciones se intentó instaurar una nueva estética de la sociedad y sus espacios vitales, significadas desde un ordenamiento de mundo pulcro, disciplinado y ordenado, donde los elementos “contaminantes” debían ser erradicados. La democracia representativa constituía el sistema que había permitido la diseminación de la enfermedad. Por ello, había que reemplazarla.Este trabajo muestra como la prensa adoptó estos discursos que transitan entre la enfermedad del cuerpo, la rehabilitación y la difusión de las medidas preventivas en clave higiénica. La revisión se enfoca en los periódicos El Mercurio, La Tercera y la Revista Ercilla. Con todo, para comprender el uso de estas metáforas durante la dictadura, se pone atención al lugar que había tenido el cuerpo en el proyecto de la Unidad Popular, en adelante UP. Para el análisis se incorpora una aproximación a los imaginarios de la enfermedad (Sontag, 2013; Arendt 2006; Delich 1983 e Iazzeta 2013), el rol de la producción simbólica en la política (Balandier, 1994; Eco, 2015; Errázuriz y Leiva, 2013), y el vínculo entre cuerpo y juventud revolucionaria/disciplinada.
If at its beginnings the Selfie was interpreted as an expression of the narcissism of contemporary culture, at the time of Covid-19 not only does it become the ordinary mask of the show performed on ...the stage of social networks, but it acquires the power to act on the social body. The Selfie, therefore, can be characterized as an iconic two-faced act with contradictory and ambiguous intentions and outcomes. The contribution examines the case of the Vaccine Selfie, in this particularly emblematic sense.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, the government has struggled to enforce regulations to curb spread of the disease. People continued to travel to their desh (home village) not caring ...about the prescribed health guidelines even after national lockdown was announced. As per many people's perspectives, they-the pious/Bangladeshis-were immune to COVID-19. Nevertheless, novel forms of stigmatisation emerged. In this article, I seek to illuminate why Bangladeshis violated the government-prescribed health guidelines and put themselves and their families at risk. I contend that, though it can be argued that not many people were aware of the seriousness of the coronavirus, the pandemic has exposed ontological potentialities and differences among the people of Bangladesh.
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