Week Three Response: Embodiment, Identity, and Space
1. What is meant by embodiment when we are talking about digital space? Where does the embodiment occur? Is it located in the actual physical body, in the digital space, or somewhere else?
2. It seems from various mentions in the two readings that we can theorize cars in a lot of different ways regarding space and place. The inside of a car can be a space or place, while simultaneously moving us from place to place. Can a car also be considered an extension of the body? How does this idea relate to viewing bodies as occupying space or even constituting a spaces or places in themselves?
3. I found the idea of “bare life” being comodified and reconstituted particularly disturbing (and recognizable in my own life), particularly in the fact that this gives those who market experiences an incentive to make attaining those experiences outside the capitalist system difficult or impossible. Thrift explains on page 74 that he does have hope in the form of performance and philosophy, but when thinking specifically about nature, what is the alternative to the complete monetization of “experiences”?
Embodiment – experiencing phenomena through physical sensations and action.
Space – an area, delimited in some way, where social interaction can occur.
Place – a location or space endowed with meaning.