BODY FIRST: Somaesthetics and Popular Culture

Contents
Introduction - Body First: Somaesthetics and Popular Culture 4
Jozef Kovalčik & Max Ryynänen

Articles:

Popular Culture and Wellbeing: Teamwork, Action, and Freedom 6
Sue Spaid

 
The Plasticity of Flesh and Bone: Transforming the Body Through 21
Somaesthetic Experience
Scott Elliott 

Artworks’ Bodies  37
Adam Andrzejewski

Sparks of Yoga: Reconsidering the Aesthetic in Modern Postural Yoga 46
Noora-Helena Korpelainen

The Crash-Event: Repetition and Difference in J. G. Ballard’s Crash  61
Janne Vanhanen   

Perfume, Violence and Symbolic Sacrifice  75
Davide Giovanzana 

Under the Skin: Notes on the Aesthetics of Distance and Visual Culture 85
Max Ryynänen