...This chapter examines the complexity and significance of what is at stake in the terms “species,” “matter,” “humane,” and “advocacy.” In particular, it considers multifarious contradictions deriving from the fact that “critters become with each other in many and marvelous forms and processes...

...—and always will be on the verge of becoming. It has argued that, in the realms of reading, writing, creating, experiencing, and thinking, there can be no closure, no finished business, no stable sense—only an afterness that both follows and inaugurates one more time. If being and following invite us to think...

...This book presents research on the philosophical, biomedical, and cultural understandings of the matrix in relation to the notion of hospitality. Matrix is understood to denote a diversity of things, ideas, and phenomena—sort of a “ground zero” or an original place for generation and becoming...

... designed to illuminate existing dance phenomena while catalyzing the creation of new ones. First, to dance is to create and become patterns of sensation and response. Second, to dance is to move in ways that cultivate a sensory awareness of the dancer's participation; that is, to cultivate a sensory...

... dancing as a vital art. It considers how, with a shift to the perspective of bodily becoming, dancing describes the logic by which a particular culture develops in and through a community of people. It also explores the dynamics of cultural accumulation, consolidation, specialization, abstraction...

...This chapter argues that to dance is to connect and challenges the materialist idea—inclined against dancing—that humans are individuals first and foremost who choose to enter into relationships our bodily movements create with those who support us in becoming who we are. In other words, every...

...This chapter presents two approaches to answering the question: how do people become who they are? The first approach is to accept that people's character is already innate to them the time they were born. Although, people may gradually be able to refine the inner core of their personality...

... of—not to mention practice—dance as a vital art. In fact, dancing often appears as the opposite of what counts as knowledge. This chapter considers the idea of reading and writing as practices of bodily becoming and explains how dancing exercises the very sensory awareness of ourselves as bodily movement...

... becoming. Birth Breaths cycle of Experiential frames Body Conception Dance Dualism Homo sapiens Materialist paradigm Matter Mind Brain Western culture Biological necessity dance as Humans Pain Patterns of sensation and response Rhythm of bodily becoming Embryo Individuality Metaphor...

... constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons. It introduces a philosophy of bodily becoming that posits bodily movement as the source and telos of human life. Within this philosophy, dance appears as an activity that humans evolved to do as the enabling condition of their best bodily becoming...