
Saved by Alex Wittenberg
Forgetting the Body
Saved by Alex Wittenberg
Above all, identify with your analog nature, the flesh and blood of your body and habitat. Learn your body and your habitat first, before going down the digital rabbit hole. Hone your native senses. You might well be surprised how far you can go with flesh alone.
The same myopic, zoomed-in perspective now appears on the cover of every health magazine. The human body is presented as an individual object, living alone, isolated and abstracted from its life-supporting systems of habitat and tribe. No background, no context, no environment. From what we see on magazine covers, we might well come to the conclusi
... See moreI am intrigued with the challenge of mismatch, the disconnect between ancient bodies and the modern world.