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Bruno (Sand) 2017
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The scratching and rubbing of his neck are of the kind of mundane movements all human beings enact. For example, we might touch our face, scratch our leg, fiddle with our hands, shift in our seat, or orient our face to see something or speak to another. We enact these kinds of movements with considerable variation, depending on the circumstance. Their mundane origins and fragmentary nature mean they rarely become subject of explicit analysis. Such movements can be delineated from the more legible or clearly articulated movements associated with practical actions or communicative gestures. These smaller dynamic components of movement resist articulation.
Indicative of ‘vitality affects ’ they are according to Stern:
not direct cognitions…they have no goal state and no specific means. They fall in between the cracks. They are the felt experience of force – in movement – with a temporal contour, and a sense of aliveness, of going somewhere. They do not belong to any particular content. They are more form than content. They concern the “How”, the manner the style, not the “What” or the “Why” (2010, p.8).
It is though important to distinguish the movements of the body are not in themselves vitality affects, rather the movements of the body are associated with the dynamics of human experience, which involves qualitative variations that we may become more or less sensitive to. They can though draw attention to not movement per se’ but how sartorial movements are associated with particular bodily sensations, and particular ways of experiencing out bodies, which themselves reflect the dynamic and fluid nature of movement and experience in general.
