To browse Academia. This volume engages from the perspective of the an- cient Mediterranean world with current debates in the field of cultural studies revolving around the idea of embodied knowledge. In particular, it deals with the dissolution of the concept of the ideal body as a repos- itory of knowledge through instances of deformation or hybridization. The ordered knowledge that has shaped the body is subverted and falls into disorder. One strategy for dealing with this is to canonize trans- gression in visual form.
Fluid bodies are captured in the image and domesticated, creating a visual order in disorder. The body-as-r Bodies in Transition.
Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge. Morphomata 23, This volume engages from the perspective of the ancient Mediterranean world with current debates in the field of cultural studies revolving around the idea of embodied knowledge. In particular, it deals with the dissolution of the concept of the ideal body as a repository of knowledge through instances of deformation or hybridization.
One strategy for dealing with this is to canonize transgression in visual form. The body-as-ruin is a fixed figure of fluidity and thus especially receptive to attributions of meaning, which helps explain its persistence as a cultural trope. It allows for the observation of cultural change. The concept of body has been studied for ages because it is subject to many fields such as medical science, chemistry, sociology, psychology, communication, marketing, fine arts and history.
It is inevitable that body will be subject to many researches in the future as long as humanity exists. The aim of the article is to examine in detail the perception of the body, which started from the Ancient Greek and Roman periods to the present day and remained the same in some aspects.
