Introduction : traversing : bodies, technologies, and culture in the making of (Czech) lives -- Footsteps through the city : social justice in its multiplicity -- Digital dwelling : the everyday freedoms of technology-use -- Ballroom dance and other technologies of sexuality and desire -- The new Europeans : 21st century families as sites for self-realization -- Making moods : food and drink as collective acts of sustenance, pleasure and dissolution -- Reconnection : between the power lines and the stars.
Summary:
"Susanna Trnka's book is about ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and the kinds of persons we become as a result, a process she refers to as traversing. Drawing from philosophical concepts developed by two continental philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and placing these concepts in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, the book examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world"-- Provided by publisher.
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