My challenge is to extensively complicate understandings of the \u2018distributed nature of embodiment, blurring lines between self\/other and human\/nonhuman in the production of knowledge\u2019 (as stated in the Open Call). Rather than discrete individuals, human bodies are composites of collaborating cells (human and nonhuman), with nonhuman populations (the microbiome) comprised of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa, clustered in highly local micro-communities all over and inside the body. These microbial nonhumans are essential to human bodily processes, including the brain, immune system, digestion, and more. Thus, humans are multispecies entities, coevolving in collaboration with their microbiome; the \u2018multispecies entity\u2019 is in effect an ecosystem of human and nonhuman cells known as a \u2018holobiont\u2019. Further, the microbiomes of environment \u2018bodies\u2019 share species overlap with the human holobiont, implying porosity between human bodies, animal bodies, soil bodies, ocean bodies, and so on. Any notion of distinct separation between \u2018bodies\u2019 should be understood rather as a series of porous zones of exchange. Hybridity of all bodies (including \u2018human\u2019 researchers) is a messy situation of blurred edges and inter-acting affects. Whose knowledge are we creating? How do we acknowledge and deepen relations with our own hybrid selves? What is a body? Should ecosomatics consider not only the body\u2019s relation to an external ecology but also relations within the multiplicity of the human holobiont? Could artists\/researchers working with somatic, body, and movement-based methodologies collaborate productively with scientists\/microbiologists to generate insights not available to either cohort on their own?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My challenge is to extensively complicate understandings of the \u2018distributed nature of embodiment, blurring lines between self\/other and human\/nonhuman in the production of knowledge\u2019 (as stated in the Open Call). Rather than discrete individuals, human bodies are composites of collaborating cells (human and nonhuman), with nonhuman populations (the microbiome) comprised of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and … Continue reading Carolyn Deby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dsp-2023","category-panelist-dsp-2023","category-provocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/researchembodiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}