Ventral premotor cortex may be required for dynamic changes in the feeling of limb ownership: a lesion study. Her theory of "trans-corporeality" brings together new materialism, material feminism, environmentalism, and post humanist theories.

She advances “trans-corporeality” as the basis for a post-humanist environmental ethics which understands the human as “always intermeshed with the more-than-human world” (2). From form to consciousness and unconsciousness of body movements inside some of the most vigorous sports. She argues that many Westerners live in risk societies, but that some — primarily minorities — are more at risk than others from pollution, toxic chemicals, radioactive materials, etc. really great ideas here, though some of the repetition of the same quotes from sources got in the way of me finding alaimo’s throughline.Berkson's Canary's Tale, to demonstrate how the health industry's failure to address this condition reflects its inability to function in trans-corporeal ways.

She brings together phenomenological and scientific understandings of the nature of consciousness and argues that the two approaches can strengthen and support each other.Structured both as an "environmental justice mystery" and a western, with a standoff at the end between the FBI and Native Americans, Watershed features David Hawks, a black hydrologist, who discovers that a polluted creek endangers a Native American community (65).

The body is not a fenced off, separate entity, she contends, but a site of trans-corporeality that embodies the simultaneity of nature, discourse, and society. but her ideas have definitely become mainstays in envs, so the book felt like a timely review of where some of those ideas came from/emerged out of. Experimental changes in illusory self-identification with a fake or virtual body are associated with changes in touch and pain perception, as well as physiological changes. The book's third chapter, "Invisible Matters," looks at literary and activist narratives that dramatize the transformation of science. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Beginning his review by reflecting on the book's cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo's posthuman environmentalism. The papers include studies of body illusions and studies of observed differences in bodily experience in participants with psychiatric and physical conditions.