By Ben Spatz
In What a physique Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the 1st time, a rigorous thought of embodied strategy as wisdom. He argues that viewing approach as either education and learn has a lot to supply present debates over the function of perform within the collage, together with the debates round "practice as research."
Drawing on serious views from the sociology of information, phenomenology, dance experiences, enactive cognition, and different parts, Spatz argues that method is a tremendous sector of ancient and ongoing learn in actual tradition, appearing arts, and daily life.
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Chapter 3 considers another area of specialized technique, that of actor training. As in the previous chapter, I trace the development, spread, and transformation of technique from one time and place to another. Unlike modern postural yoga, the technique developed by Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933–99) is not primarily physical. It can therefore help expand our definition of embodied technique to include other areas, such as those linked to vocalization, memory, and imagination.
6 To summon sleep, to arouse anger, or to stimulate joy are not actions to be taken directly, but they are certainly within the realm of embodied technique. Hans 35 AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF PRACTICE Joas makes a similar point in his critique of “activistic” theories, which privilege “continuous activity, the permanent generation of individual acts,” and which he considers both ethnocentric and patriarchal (1996: 167–68). ” Crossley’s examples of falling asleep and arousing or quelling emotion involve just this kind of interplay between action and receptivity, and it will be important to keep this in mind as we develop our understanding of embodiment technique.
The reader with more “practical” interests is invited to skip ahead to later chapters, referring back to Chapter 1 as needed, in order to clarify the intended meaning of key terms—especially technique, practice, knowledge, and research. Chapter 2 analyzes the development and subsequent global spread of postural yoga during the twentieth century, treating this as a particularly clear example of both the invention and the dissemination of embodied technique. In addition to its evident commercial success, postural yoga is a tidy example with which to begin because of its (relatively recent) emphasis on the possibilities of the physical body.