My Relationship with my body?

For this week post we had to do a little bit of reading and answer the questions, what is my relationship with my body? and what is the relationship of my body with technology?

Mark Hansen, in his reading, Bodies in Code talks about how in embodiment the body is inside a body schema system which has two perspectives of it as body as an image and as an object. I believe that my relationship to my body is a body "for me" perspective, as the body scheme system defines. It is more oriented on its "potential movement". My body operates with different motor functions, having its understanding of its own world, it operates consciously as any normal or "phenomenal" body. This means it continues working without out concern, it has control over itself and its organisms.

On the other hand, the relationship of my body with technology is more a body as an image perspective, it only obtains a superficial view of the my body but not an understanding of what its happening inside it. Hansen gives an explanation of the way technology only takes a visual apprehension of the body, being a representation of ourselves. He also refers to the way we are able to percept emotions of others’ bodies and our own and in some way interchange of our body-image with others body-images.