You & Your Body - Phenomenology, Politics & Queer Theory

Participatory lecture

18th March 2024 Exeter University

Politics Department, Falmouth Campus, - Cornwall, UK 

Lecture looking at how embodied perception helps construct self-image.

The premise is based on an understanding of body image as an embodiment of a construct. This approach highlights how intertwined Phenomenology and Neuroscience are while showing how much agency is at hand by pour biology design as well as the interconnectedness of mind and body.

Our appearance is at its best: subjective, unrealistic and variable, but ultimately a construct with or against norms and therefore it can be de- and re-constructed. Our brains are designed in such way.

In the same way philosopher and feminist Judith Butler describes in her book ‘Gender Trouble’: ‘One is not born a woman, but becomes one’

This of course is transferable to any gender or non-gender person, but a personal construct nonetheless.

This lecture aims at individual self-questioning in a relaxed shared environment with the hope to find possible ways to move forward. So if queering is a verb and norms are to be queered, how would you queer politics, art, science or body image? And how would you queer the current approach and applied politics on body image?

You & Your Body - Phenomenology, Politics & Queer Theory

Participatory lecture

18th March 2024 Exeter University

Politics Department, Falmouth Campus, - Cornwall, UK 

Lecture looking at how embodied perception helps construct self-image.

The premise is based on an understanding of body image as an embodiment of a construct. This approach highlights how intertwined Phenomenology and Neuroscience are while showing how much agency is at hand by pour biology design as well as the interconnectedness of mind and body.

Our appearance is at its best: subjective, unrealistic and variable, but ultimately a construct with or against norms and therefore it can be de- and re-constructed. Our brains are designed in such way.

In the same way philosopher and feminist Judith Butler describes in her book ‘Gender Trouble’: ‘One is not born a woman, but becomes one’

This of course is transferable to any gender or non-gender person, but a personal construct nonetheless.

This lecture aims at individual self-questioning in a relaxed shared environment with the hope to find possible ways to move forward. So if queering is a verb and norms are to be queered, how would you queer politics, art, science or body image? And how would you queer the current approach and applied politics on body image?