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Doctor Who big finish audios are so fucking good and underrated oh my god

Thanks for all the work you put in man! I'm not an academic (formally), but I watch every video. While intellectually stimulating, your style is also extremely calming which I very much appreciate

Tysm and holy shit lol I have a lot to get through. I just finished season 2 of Gallifrey ('Imperiatrix'). My CD set of Time War Vol 1 just came in the other day I'm so hyped

Somewhere in the early pages of P&R he admits that his is a theory of monads, but without the external motion ascribed to them by Leibniz. I hope to read more on the relationship of Marx and Whitehead's methods, prioritizing relations, relations of relations and all

Underrated answer here is Alfred North Whitehead

Morphospaces of embodied cognition

Omg do you have a template for this? I just started the Gallifrey series :)

"If we abstract the form from the feeling, we are left with an eternal object as the remnant of subjective form."

"The subjective form is the immediate novelty; it is how *that* subject is feeling that objective datum. There is no tearing this subjective form from the novelty of this concrescence. It is enveloped in the immediacy of its present."

"A feeling bears on itself the scars of its birth; it recollects as a subjective emotion its struggle for exsitence; it retains the impress of what it might have been, but is not... The actual cannot be reduced to mere matter of fact in divorce from the potential." -Alfred North Whitehead

This is way down the line, but if theoretical and experimental morphospaces can help track the somatic effects of capitalist social property relations, then we can learn not only to Bodymap Capital, but perhaps provide a legitimate 3D model

I.e. Neurophysiological adaptations to capitalist social property relations diminish the relative possibilities available for political subjects to develop healthy, wide-ranging, and self-reproducing somatic experiences. Theoretically, only communism can elicit these opportunities

Any set of actions that orients the healthy or harmful development of ones somatic system relates directly to the relative possibilities available for any percipient at each moment. An anti-capitalist (anti-hierarchy) view can be argued from a somatic perspective and grounded very well

Living within capitalist social property relations, the bodies of specific people operate in specific ways, at least in the abstract. Precariousness, as per the polyvagal model, contributes heavily to trauma. There are in other words precise somatic effects of the capitalist structure of labor

What I want to explore is developing a methodology for researching, analyzing, and compiling the data of significant historical examples of somatic experiences and interpret them through a Whiteheadian/Marxist framework of the body as a bearer of social relations and as a site of their reproduction

Sensations in these areas could mean that these parts of our bodies are "telling us something" about our surroundings or our situation. If we learn to only live in the head, we will lose awareness of this somatic language. Here is another example this time with the Temporalis located by the ear

For instance, the Quadratus Lumborum located in the lower back has a character structure of "autonomy" with one ego function being "balances ones own needs/feelings/desires against others' expectations" coupled with a psych function of "maintaining awareness of oneself while mirroring others"

Slight twitches, spasms, aches, and instances of hyper-responsive or hypo-responsive tension all relate to a diverse set of ego functions. Through decades of research, Lisa Fischer & co. developed a methodology for exploring this psychological content

The Bodynamics System and the complex Bodymap tool they've produced offers a wealth of information here. Every muscle in our body is coupled with one or more psychological functions contingent on stages of childhood development, safety, and trauma. Our neuromuscular structure has "something to say"

Ocular perspective is strong, and the interaction with a conscious, actively thinking feeling is necessary- perhaps inescapable. However, the insight of our eyeballs go elsewhere, too. Our muscles respond creatively to what we see, and not always within active, conscious control

It's very important to me that we start re-imagining the head. It isn't the seat of consciousness, nor is it where our "thinking" selves are "located" - that our eyes evolved above our shoulders lends bias to a literal hierarchical view of the body, but this isn't necessarily justified

On this line of thought I'm going to be ordering this book by @footnotes2plato.substack.com soon! Very excited

Some literature aimed at putting Karl Marx and Alfred North Whitehead into conversation. Marx as a process philosopher makes sense to me, especially given Manfred Franks insistence on the Schelling influence. I'm interested in seeing how Whitehead's God and Marxs Capital intersect

The article discusses the tyranny of the eye in sense perception. Process and Reality lays out a methodology to critique how Western philosophers have taken for granted certain somatic assumptions and their consequent epistemological limitations. Just picked up this book on the history of sight..

This is a fantastic article. If what Whitehead says of the human body is true (an amplifier in the terms of electromagnetism) then showing how consciousness is distributed at least across the body is important. Exploring the transduction problem and highlighting of the ENS over the Brain is great

Read Chapter 10 of Alfred North Whiteheads Process & Reality this morning - ending part 2. What a stellar conclusion to this section of the book. The metaphysical contradiction between stasis and movement has always stumped me. His Concrescence scheme clears up a lot of the problems I've had

Hey everyone! First time on here. Needed somewhere to share my readings, so figured I'd make an account. Mostly just for me but please feel free to interact :)