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The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a "(Bmachine made up of flesh and bones." The body is acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal and phonetic rhythms, affective idioms, and emotional styles -- perceptual, sensorial, motoric, and affective schemata -- are all largely learned in shared social contexts. These aspects of the embodied experience are often consigned to habit, to bodily automatisms, and to corporeal memories that reflect aspects of culture. But if the body reflects certain aspects of culture that press to become naturalized and organically attached to social actors, it also resists these kinds of cultural pressures. These adaptive and resistive dynamics, as this book shows, are not without consequences for individuals and groups. These processes can result in both advantages and disadvantages for social actors. They can take us toward certain futures while foreclosing others. It is therefore necessary to understand how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew

Preliminary Material /Rafael F. Narváez and Leslie R. Malland -- To Be-Between, To Pass Between: Becoming 'Intermezzo' in Orlan's Carnal Art /Burcu Baykan -- William Forsythe Choreography and Architectural Space /Betul Ay and Pelin Dursun Çebi -- Gibran's Orphalese, the Erotic City /Azzeddine Bouhassoun -- Perpetual Transition: A Communication between Photography and Absence within the Ruin /Clementine Monro -- The Role of Time in Art Reading: Cubism and Futurism /Caterina Toschi -- The Performance in the City /Duygu Erol -- From the Sensuous Spatiality of the Body to the Bodily Coordination of Space /Eleni Chronopoulou -- Gezi Park Protests: New Definitions of Body and Space in the City /Elif Gözde Öztoprak and Pelin Dursun Çebi -- Relational Bodies in Japanese Architecture: Sustainability Reconsidered /Katsuhiko Muramoto -- Peripheries and Possibilities: Time, Space and the Body in Female Drug Literature /Nycole Prowse -- Public Space Design Between Alienation and Appropriation: The Case of Parkour /Shelley Smith and Nicolai Steinø -- Timeless Spaces in Today's Architecture: Discussing Today's Architecture Through Terry Gilliam's Brazil and Michael Radford's 1984 /Hazal Günal and Pelin Dursun Çebi -- Hidden in Plain Sight: An Investigation of the Walked Landscape and Desire Lines /Christobel Kelly -- The Urban Challenge of Participation Through Theatre in Rio /Ana Carolina Lima e Ferreira -- Fate's Commanding Role in Paradise Lost /Leslie R. Malland -- Self-Organised Citizens' Groups and Urban Space: Challenges in Planning Paradigm /Katerina Mojanchevska -- How the Human Body Connects the Present, to the Past and to the Forthcoming /Rafael F. Narváez.