Fascias: Methodological Propositions and Ontologies That Stretch and Slide

Body and Society 26 (3):94-109 (2020)
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Abstract

This commentary introduces fascia, our bodily connective tissue, as a contribution to thinking body as process beyond mind–body dualisms. Research in the field of Fascia Studies has shown that fascias’ core qualities are shifting and sliding in tensional responsiveness and that its both/and tissue-and-system features challenge clear-cut definitions. Acknowledging these characteristics of human physiology in novel ways, and in particular fascia as our largest sensory organ, becomes relevant to ontologies, alterities and research methodologies emphasizing experience and transdisciplinarity. Importantly, the notion is never to theorize fascia as model or metaphor but as quotidian processual responsive proposition.

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