@conference {2045,
	title = {Body-Scale: Somaticity, Degrowth, and the Revival of Place},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {<p>The paper deals with the following questions: {\textemdash}How the "full-bodied" quality of lived meaning diminishes for the anthropoi with the growth of institutions and infrastructures beyond its somatic grasp {\textemdash}How, accordingly, lived experience is impoverished and flattened {\textemdash}How with growth, what is commonly imagination, rather than being the celebrated paragon of human nature, constitutes a response of the natural body{\textquoteright}s stretch beyond healthy limits, resulting in relative "desomaticization" {\textemdash}How the imagination ascends to dominance when real life{\textemdash}the materially embedded life of sensuous presence{\textemdash}dwindles {\textemdash}How what follows with the dwindling of our animal sensorium is a loss of tangible contact with the environing determinants of life {\textemdash}How the living body comes to be determined by objective factors beyond its reach except through abstraction (the symbolic), now dominant in social life, life at a decisive remove and disjointed from the rest of the natural world, alienated in the true sense The paper concludes with a call for a return to the body-scale as indispensable horizon of dismantling empire and restoration of place.</p>},
	author = {Kris Forkasiewicz}
}
