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oapen-20.500.12657-521732022-07-21T14:01:46Z Sweet Spots Sempert, Mattie-Martha acupuncture;Alfred North Whitehead;Baruch Spinoza;Chinese traditional medicine;Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari;more-than-human;process philosophy;relational thought;taoism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCF Western philosophy, from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRK Other non-Christian religions::HRKN Oriental religions::HRKN5 Taoism bic Book Industry Communication::V Health & personal development::VX Mind, Body, Spirit::VXH Complementary therapies, healing & health::VXHT Traditional medicine & herbal remedies::VXHT1 Chinese medicine & acupuncture Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words—that is, language that lands as written text—are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice of acupuncture—and its relational thinking—often makes its presence felt to twirl the text-tissue of the bodying essays. Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections. Entangled in the text-tissue are an assortment of entities, such as bickering body parts, quivering jellyfish, heart pacemaker cells, a narwhal tooth, Taoist parables, always with ubiquitous, stretchy connective tissue — from gooey interstitial fluid to thick planes of fascia — ever present to ensure that the essaying bodies become, what Alfred North Whitehead calls the one-which-includes-the-many-includes-the-one. The essaying bodies orient towards the sweetest sweet spot which is found, not in the center, but slightly askew, felt in the reverbing more-than that carries their potential. Crucially, this produces a shift in perspective away from self-enclosed bodies and experts toward a care for the connective tissue of relation. 2021-12-22T10:11:44Z 2021-12-22T10:11:44Z 2021 book 9781685710101 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52173 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0340.1.00.pdf https://punctumbooks.com/punctum/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210310sweetspots-cover-web-front.png punctum books Ecologies Book 10.53288/0340.1.00 10.53288/0340.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685710101 ScholarLed Ecologies Book 264 open access
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Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words—that is, language that lands as written text—are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice of acupuncture—and its relational thinking—often makes its presence felt to twirl the text-tissue of the bodying essays. Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections.
Entangled in the text-tissue are an assortment of entities, such as bickering body parts, quivering jellyfish, heart pacemaker cells, a narwhal tooth, Taoist parables, always with ubiquitous, stretchy connective tissue — from gooey interstitial fluid to thick planes of fascia — ever present to ensure that the essaying bodies become, what Alfred North Whitehead calls the one-which-includes-the-many-includes-the-one.
The essaying bodies orient towards the sweetest sweet spot which is found, not in the center, but slightly askew, felt in the reverbing more-than that carries their potential. Crucially, this produces a shift in perspective away from self-enclosed bodies and experts toward a care for the connective tissue of relation.
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