Somapower: Somaesthetics Reads Politics / / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz.

• Superior document: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025
• TeilnehmendeR: Koczanowicz, Leszek,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025.; Studies in Somaesthetics ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)

We do politics in, through, and as bodies. All our political activity is inevitably corporeal. Parliamentary debates, party assemblies, street demonstrations, and civil disobedience are all bodily actions. Political regimes maintain their power by controlling our bodies, both through explicit acts of violence and, more insidiously, by inculcating somatic norms of obedience to the political authorities and ideologies. This oppression can be effectively challenged if we use somaesthetics to identify and examine the bodily habits and feelings that express and reinforce such domination. Somaesthetically explored, they can be refashioned and help overcome the oppressive social conditions that produce them.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Leszek Koczanowicz -- Acknowledgements / Editor: Leszek Koczanowicz -- Chapter 1 For a Somaesthetics of Carceral Resistance: Dissociation, Sensation, and the Intercorporeal Field / Anita Chari -- Chapter 2 Misfit Mutiny: Somaesthetic Discomfort against the Abjection, Oppression, and Exclusion of Normativity / Mark Tschaepe -- Chapter 3 Somaesthetics and the Somatic Experience of White Privilege / Chris Voparil -- Chapter 4 Body Ecology and Digital Urbanism: Assimilation-Resistance-Hybridity / Jakub Petri -- Chapter 5 The Body as a Place of Resistance to the Pandemic Politics of Global Corporations: Recovering the Sensibility of the Body / Aleksandra Łukaszewicz -- Part 2 Somaesthetics of Taste / Editor: Leszek Koczanowicz -- Chapter 6 Cooking as Somaesthetic and Political Education / Nicola Perullo -- Chapter 7 Pragmatist Aesthetics, Ethics of Taste, and Feminism / Stefano Marino -- Chapter 8 Somaesthetics and the Political Potential of Taste / Dorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz -- Chapter 9 Biopower and Somapower: Suggesting a Theoretical Framework on a Heraclitan Basis / Alexander Kremer -- Afterword Somapower and Politics; Action, Affect, and Atmosphere / Richard Shusterman -- Back Matter -- Index / Editor: Leszek Koczanowicz.