The Body as Language: Syntax, Semantics, and Soma
The body precedes the word, not only in evolutionary sequence but in ontological priority, because before meaning can be spoken it must be enacted. To think, one must first inhabit the material and energetic field that thinking itself presupposes, and therefore language in its most primordial state is neither symbolic nor auditory but kinetic, tactile, respiratory, and gravitational. The body…











