American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, Fall 2015, Issue 35.2
Penumbra An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquirey
Spring 2015
http://unionpenumbra.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Issue-2-Book.pdf
Abstract:
We all have a body; this is obvious. Our lives are structured by our body: When we are hungry, we eat. When we are cold, we
cover up. When we are tired, we sleep. Yet how do we actually understand our relationship with our body? Is our body more
than these physical indicators? Does our body extend past this physical form? What role does our body play in the
understanding of our identity? Do we have only one body or do we create multiple bodies for ourselves? Where does our
body end and our environment begin? In postmodern thought the phrase “nomadic borderlands” refers to the undefined
space between what we know as our reality and the “outside” (that which we do not know yet brushes with and influences
our experiences). They are nomadic because the boundaries of this space is always moving and changing as the fuzzy
edges of our own existence brushes with the fuzzy edges of this undefined space.
Nomadic Borderlands explores the relationships between our bodies and our exterior world, focusing of the shifting edges
of where our body (interior) ends and the outside (exterior) world begins.
Penumbra An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquirey
Spring 2015
http://unionpenumbra.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Issue-2-Book.pdf
Abstract:
We all have a body; this is obvious. Our lives are structured by our body: When we are hungry, we eat. When we are cold, we
cover up. When we are tired, we sleep. Yet how do we actually understand our relationship with our body? Is our body more
than these physical indicators? Does our body extend past this physical form? What role does our body play in the
understanding of our identity? Do we have only one body or do we create multiple bodies for ourselves? Where does our
body end and our environment begin? In postmodern thought the phrase “nomadic borderlands” refers to the undefined
space between what we know as our reality and the “outside” (that which we do not know yet brushes with and influences
our experiences). They are nomadic because the boundaries of this space is always moving and changing as the fuzzy
edges of our own existence brushes with the fuzzy edges of this undefined space.
Nomadic Borderlands explores the relationships between our bodies and our exterior world, focusing of the shifting edges
of where our body (interior) ends and the outside (exterior) world begins.
