The body on stage

Abstract

The present work addresses the question of the body, as a privileged entry way to the analyisis of one of the most important cultural transformations of our time; that is, the emergence of the form of virtual communication as a guideline for social interaction. From a succinct review of the different ways in which scientific production, particularly in social areas, has dealt with the body, a critique is attempted not only to its theoretical constraints (mechanistic, individualistic, materialistic and anthropocentric) but also to the verb centered way of producing them. The qualitative methodological approach is based here on the semiotic analysis that characterize the features and functioning of the different means of production of meaning considered. From this journey, the general purpose of the work is outlined, aimed at reviewing the theoretical limitations and, from there, epistemological and ontological that the research on the body presents. It is also held here, as a hypothesis, that from some of the emerging theoretical aspects of thought about the body, it is posible to build bridges with non-Western cultural traditions, such as the Andean worldview, capable of providing a differential way of understanding the body, and an alternative way of producing knowledge.