bodily hexis

is a pattern both individual and systematic, charged with a host of social meanings and values.

a pattern of postures that is both individual and systematic. . . and is charged with a host of social meanings and values' (87 OTP)

is political mythology embodied, rendered into a permanent disposition of standing, speaking, feeling, and thinking.

Much teaching is done implicitly through games and rituals and play (Outline87-95)'bodily hexis is political mythology realised, em-bodied, turned into a permanent disposition, a durable manner of standing, speaking, and thereby of feeling and thinking (Outline 94).

is sub-discursive education. It is the embodying of the structures of the world.

sub-discursive education (e.g. gestures, postures) the 'embodying of the structures of the world' (Outline to a Theory of Practice 89)

is the integration of body space with cosmic space.

The concessions of politeness always contain political concessions (Outline 95).lclassification schemes are embodied in the world of objects 'movements integrate body space with cosmic space (Outline 91).

is the physical space one claims with one's body through a bearing and gestures (which can be self-assured or reserved, expansive or constricted, aggressive, careless, or unconscious).

Bodily hexis, a basic dimension of the sense of social orientation, is a practical way of experiencing and expressing one's own sense of social value. One's relationship to the social world and to one's proper place in it is never more clearly expressed than in the space and time one feels entitled to take from others... more precisely, in the space one claims with one's body in physical space, through a bearing and gestures that are self-assured or reserved, expansive or constricted ('presence' or 'insignificance') and with one's speech in time, through the interaction time one appropriates and the self-assured or aggressive, careless or unconscious way one appropriates it. . . . There is no better image of the logic of socialization, which treats the body as a 'memory-jogger', than those complexes of gestures, postures and words simple interjections or favourite cliches which only have to be slipped into, like a theatrical costume, to awaken, by the evocative power of bodily mimesis, a universe of ready-made feelings and experiences. The elementary actions of bodily gymnastics, especially the specifically sexual, biologically pre-constructed aspect of it, charged with social meanings and values, function as the most basic of metaphors, capable of evoking a whole relationship to the world, 'lofty' or 'submissive', 'expansive' or 'narrow', and through it a whole world. (from distinctions)

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bodily hexis