Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It was described as a wonderful book that discusses the question "What can a body do?" posed by Gilles Deleuze, exploring how the built environment and the presence or absence of assistive technologies profoundly impact what a body can achieve.
Her book is, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World.
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It was described as a wonderful book that discusses the question "What can a body do?" posed by Gilles Deleuze, exploring how the built environment and the presence or absence of assistive technologies profoundly impact what a body can achieve.
Her book is, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World.
And that question I didn't know until I read this from you is really a famous question in the history of philosophy. Would you say a little bit about that?
What can a body do as a question posed by Gile de Luse, a French philosopher, and he was in dialogue with him much earlier, philosophical question of spinoses.
The designed world, the presence or absence of prosthetics but also assistive technologies of all kinds, things like ramps instead of stairways.
So you say, okay, well, what is a body in a wheelchair? What can it do? Well, it depends. It's a part of the legs, amulet or not.