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Avec Aparición (2020-), l’artiste de performance guatémaltèque, Regina José Galindo, interprète des personnages masqués au sein de chorégraphies mises en scène dans des espaces publics, en hommage à des femmes disparues. Chaque performance est spécifique à un site, le nombre de figures correspondant à la fréquence des féminicides survenus dans chaque lieu. Aparición est souvent le fruit d’une collaboration: Galindo a développé le concept depuis la capitale de Guatémala, tandis que des artistes locaux l’ont concrétisé dans des villes situées entre Buenos Aires et Berlin. Cet article examine le potentiel de la performance collaborative de Galindo et de sa documentation pour combler des fossés géopolitiques et temporels imaginaires ainsi que pour remettre en question les modalités traditionnelles de la monumentalité.

Through a discussion of drone warfare, and in particular the massacre of 23 people in the Uruzgan province in Afghanistan in 2010, I argue that drone warfare is both embodied and embodying. Drawing from posthuman feminist theorists such as Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles, I understand the turn toward data and machine intelligence not as an other-than-human process of decisionmaking that deprives humans of sovereignty, but as a form of embodiment that reworks and undermines essentialist notions of culture and nature, biology and technology. Through the intermediation of algorithmic, visual, and affective modes of embodiment, drone warfare reproduces gendered and racialized bodies that enable a necropolitics of massacre. Finally, the category of gender demonstrates a flaw in the supposed perfectibility of the algorithm in removing issues of identity or prejudice from security practices, as well as the perceptions of drone assemblages as comprising sublime technologies of perfect analysis and vision. Gender as both a mode of embodiment and a category of analysis is not removed by algorithmic war, but rather is put into the service of the violence it enables.

Existing research supports both embodiment of stress through epigenetics and epigenetic impacts on dental development. This article proposes two models for embodiment of stress in dental development: the stress-delay model, with increased stress during development producing delays in dental development, and the inflammation-acceleration model, with increased stress producing faster dental development through inflammatory pathways. These models were tested on dental development scores from the New Mexico Decedent Image Database, using (a) nonaccidental death (homicide, suicide, and natural) as proxy for elevated stress exposure during life and (b) cadaver body mass index (BMI) percentile as proxy for living BMI. Sex was treated as a positive control because typically dental development is faster in females than in males. Nonaccidental death and male sex were both associated with slower dental development; however, manner of death was significant only for 7 of 32 (22%) of teeth. Mean BMI percentile was highest for natural death and lowest for homicide. These findings support the stress-delay model and accord with existing studies that found limited evidence that embodied effects on dental development are sufficiently large to affect estimates of age.

This article historically situates human biology research by engaging with feminist science and technology scholars to show plasticity, how a key mechanism of embodiment, is used to re/produce sex and gender binaries in anthropological research and beyond. It first defines embodiment and demonstrates its reliance on plasticity and then reviews how and why plasticity has been taken up in human biology research. The article then engages with the works of feminist, trans, and queer scholars who have examined the connections among embodiment, plasticity, and the creation of Western binarized sex and gender. Further, the article presents how the re/production of a sex and gender binary is entwined with the justification of racial hierarchies through plasticity. While deterministic frameworks are often the most criticized in biology for harmful racist and sexist understandings of race and gender, plasticity and gene × environment interaction frameworks are not without fault. Even with large shifts in scientific understanding—in this case, from determinism to plasticity—science, in particular human biology, can still be a tool to create and maintain racist, patriarchal, cis- and heteronormative systems. The author concludes with recommendations and possible pathways forward for embodiment and plasticity research in human biology, suggesting that human biology research should engage with feminist science and technology critiques to be mindful of how our concepts might be re/producing harm.

This article reviews literature in human epigenetic research as a case study in order to examine and critique the dominant framework of embodiment as unidirectional or bidirectional and mechanistically driven. The authors identify three major critiques to this approach: (1) the treatment of epigenetic traits as a mechanism of embodiment, rather than as multidirectional components of a dynamic and ongoing embodiment process; (2) a tendency to view changing epigenetic traits as both the cause and the solution for embodied social inequalities rather than examining the need for systemic change; and (3) a loss of the complexity of varied lived experiences within epigenetic studies. The authors suggest weaving in humanistic frameworks and expanding toward a multidirectional definition of embodiment in the field as a way forward.

How do the 2022 YouVersion Bible verses-of-the-year reflect the way in which fear and loneliness were communicated via prepositional phrases that year? The associated objectives of this article are to compare Afrikaans met and van prepositional constructions expressing fear and loneliness in 2022 in two print books with the top 2022 YouVersion Bible verses; to establish how met and van relate to other prepositions in this regard, and to determine how these related prepositional constructions can expand a trauma-informed gradient of uses. This article considers Afrikaans met (with) and van (of) prepositional constructions expressing fear and loneliness in a subset of a corpus of such constructions produced in 2022. The Cognitive Linguistics analysis of the prepositional constructions centres on them as asymmetrical constructions on a spatiotemporal continuum of use in relation to the human body.

Twenty years after Barsalou’s seminal perceptual-symbols article, embodied cognition, the notion that cognition involves simulations of sensory, motor, or affective states, has moved from an outlandish proposal to a mainstream position adopted by many researchers in the psychological and cognitive sciences (and neurosciences). Though it has generated productive work in the cognitive sciences as a whole, it has had a particularly strong impact on research into language comprehension. The view of a mental lexicon based on symbolic word representations, which are arbitrarily linked to sensory aspects of their referents, was generally accepted since the cognitive revolution in the 1950s. This has radically changed. Given the current status of embodiment as a main theory of cognition, it is somewhat surprising that a close look at the literature reveals that the debate about the nature of the processes involved in language comprehension is far from settled, and key questions remain unanswered. We present several suggestions for a productive way forward.

A widely debated issue in contemporary metaphysics is whether the modal profile of ordinary objects has to be explained in non-modal terms (that is, Thesis 1 ). However, how to solve such an issue with respect to occurrences – namely, processes and events – is a question that has been largely neglected in the current metaphysical debate. The general goal of this article is to start filling this gap. As a first result of the article, we make it plausible that, if Thesis 1 holds for objects, then it also holds for processes and events. Then, we develop a metaphysical account of processes derived from Fine’s ( 1999 , 2022 ) suggestions, according to which a process is a variable embodiment that is manifested by different events at the different times it goes on – namely, Thesis 2 . We raised the challenge from the completion of a process that asks the Finean account of processes to explain relevant modal features of processes in non-modal terms. As a second result, we argue that four initially plausible strategies for solving such a challenge fall short of solving it. As a third result, we show that the theory of variable embodiments Fine formulates for objects must differ from the theory of variable embodiments that aims to model processes. We conclude by investigating some revisions to a theory of variable embodiments that aims to model processes.

Space and Body Experienced from the Cosmological Viewpoint. Eugen Fink and Renaud Barbaras The article addresses the question of the relationship between the phenomenological and the cosmological perspectives on space: space is the encompassing, it gives place and is centered in and through the embodiment of those who perceive in space. Does the oriented character of space, experienced in this manner, bind or separate cosmology and phenomenology? There exists a radical break between the two approaches, which the article pursues selectively in Fink’s university lectures, from early as 1945 onwards. Barbaras, on the contrary, proceeds from phenomenology, even if he moves more and more clearly beyond the Husserlian dualist framework of the universal correlation between consciousness and the world, in order to think the world itself. The article seeks to capture the common features and to understand the differences between the two cosmological perspectives regarding the origin of space, from their shared phenomenological provenance to the philosophical inspirations that separate them.