The history of thought is inextricably linked to a disembodied vision; knowledge is fundamentally knowing how to see with the eye of the soul. From Plato onward, a gaze that obliterates the materiality of both the body itself and that with which one thinks (the page) has been favored, giving rise to an autotelic and cerebral notion of thinking. Matter, marked by the feminine, would be nothing more than "a bastard thought," in Plato's words, upon which the penetration of the idea occurs, a properly masculine and objective sign of thought. The Enlightenment, also called the Enlightenment, would come to strengthen this immaterial generic hierarchy, further exalting vision and its metaphors (light, clarity, white, etc.). The disjected gaze. Corpofiction ventures to intervene, from the very body of its "author," in the metaphysics of sedimented intellectual discourse, highlighting the powe...read more