Mutants
Our bodies blend in and at the same time seem to stick out. We cover our bodies in layers of buttons, zippers, belts, beads, metals and cloths of all sorts. This strikes me as slightly odd. I can see the function of covering the body for social reasons and to protect the body from the [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies
| Tags: Arts, Communication Studies, dress up, Fashion, form, Interface, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Sartorial, Sociality, sociology |
The body adorned, the body’s metamorphosis into a garmented state - the interactive process - elevated both physically and imaginatively; The fashioned body as locus of reciprocity and individuality. Layering as self-transformation, on the periphery of self-visualization, never fully able to realize this realization in its wholeness. The fashioned body: the sticky tentacle for the [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Sartorial Studies
| Tags: Comme Des Garcons, Cultural Studies, Fashion, Fragment, Garment, Japan, Lacan, Nonhuman, Phenomenology, Sartorial, Social Form, Sociality, Subject, Tentacle |
Between the person and the interface of social media, there is a human or humans. In this medium of the blog, I present the reader with static yet increasing snippets from my side of existence and from the zone of other networked friends, bloggers, writers, musicians, designers, critics and thinkers that are blended as a [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Interface Humanities
| Tags: Decentered Self, Extimacy, Fragmented Body, Interface, Japan, Lacan, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Social Media, Social Media Fatigue, Social Networking, Subject, Tokyo, Web 2.0 |
This is my original translation of the first two paragraphs from Kiyokazu Washida’s essay “The Plastics” as published in Nature Interface magazine. I believe this to be the first time this is being presented in English.
The Plastics
It is far from normal to say that human beings are natural. Inside the body, humans are carried [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Interface Humanities, Japanese Translations
| Tags: Artificial, Cyborg, Human body, Interface, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Translation, Kiyokazu Washida, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Plastic |
Image from WikipediaCarl R. Rogers provides us with a look at our relationships, with our uniquely human interactions with those around us and with our self-reflective communication (our talk about our talk, our talk to our self). Rogers, in his book “On Becoming a Person,” has compiled many of his essays on self-development, communication, listening, [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies
| Tags: Arts, Carl R. Rogers, Constructive Living, Education, Growth, Humanism, Neil Postman, On Becoming a Person, Personality, Phenomenology, Psychology, Self-help |
This is my unpublished (amateur) translation of Prof. Washida’s work. My tools were a Kanji dictionary and a Japanese-English dictionary. I hope you find this stimulating.
Then there is the question of “whose body is this?” Namely, the person that is my body becomes a problem in the fact that the relationship of “me” to “my” [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Japanese Translations
| Tags: Body, Contemporary, corpse, dead body, Embodiment, Japan, Japanese, Osaka University, Phenomenology, Philosophy, screaming body, Space, Translation, Washida Kiyokazu |
Carrion Existence
Commenting on the horrifying future of the skin and of the constancy of its decay, Cioran said, “Much more than the skeleton, it is the flesh, I mean the carrion flesh, which disturbs and alarms us—and which alleviates us as well (1974).” Further, in the same essay, he writes, “In order to conceive, and [...]
February 29, 2008 – 11:58 pm
The Disproportionate Body
Kiyokazu Wakabayashi
1. The Patchwork of the Body
The Shy Body, The Tense Body
The body is a troublesome thing.
Our body never changes directly by our own will. It is awkward and resistant to change. Not wanting others to see it, we conceal this ugly body. Why is this ugly body of mine so full of [...]
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