Il corpo e la pratica, l'est e l'ovest: un'indagine antropotecnica dall'antichità alla modernità

Our body speaks its own language, even though it usually manifests differently. Body practices a certain societal language and in the meantime contributes to the language of that society. Body is not only societal, but also psychological, and, obviously, biological. It evolves through history and time, from the past to the future. Our body is also not a given object, but a subject situated in a dynamic process of incessant (re)construction. This is probably what makes life interesting or even worth living, despite how scaring it may sound at times. To navigate through this uncalculatable labyrinth of subjective objectivity or objective subjectivity, it takes a true hero. The current study is definitely not a propaganda of Hollywood style superheroes, but only a few notes for launching, if one wishes, this journey of self-discovery. To do that, it offers its investigation on four types of relationship, body and gender, body and race or class, body and technology, and body and sphere, spanning from antiquity to modernity, covering a space from east to west. And it invites the reader to form his or her own judgement and conclusions in the end. Having said that, it might not be unwise to vigilantly bear in mind that body never lies even though it lies all the time.