[NON BLOG] On the knee and the body
Jan. 11th, 2016 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldMy left knee is continuing its recovery from the dislocation I mentioned Thursday. My leg can now comfortably bear my weight, but it's still weak, with a restricted range of motion and potential wobbliness. The knee brace is definitely still needed if I'm going to be on my feet for any length of time. I will look forward to my followup appointment on the 18th.
It still has me thinking about my relationship with my body. It is easy, isn't it, to become alienated from one's physicality until you encounter something, usually a weakness, that makes you recognize how dependent you are on it?
Ours is arguably an era of pop transhumanism, of the belief that things corporeal can be transcended somehow, shifted to a higher plane. Even if this is true, don't we at least have to know and understand our starting points? What would sustained attention to our bodies feel like outside of times of crisis, I wonder?
It still has me thinking about my relationship with my body. It is easy, isn't it, to become alienated from one's physicality until you encounter something, usually a weakness, that makes you recognize how dependent you are on it?
Ours is arguably an era of pop transhumanism, of the belief that things corporeal can be transcended somehow, shifted to a higher plane. Even if this is true, don't we at least have to know and understand our starting points? What would sustained attention to our bodies feel like outside of times of crisis, I wonder?
