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Training Movement

City University of New York

In the late 20th century, sociology’s interest in social phenomena related to human life was extended to "the body"—meaning the human body. Scholars in the sociology of science have suggested that new technologies are drawing us to theorize "bodies" in ways other than simply the human. This piece of experimental writing explores an expanded treatment of social bodies, beyond the level of the human organism, through the movement and transformation of bodies at the cellular/muscular level. Influenced by the writing of Patricia Clough and based on a reading of the treatment of affects in Deleuzian philosophy, this writing is about the crossing of bodymind/mindbody in the process of physical training. It takes up the work done with a personal trainer over time, exploring the affects and sensations of movement in a way that complicates the relations of agency, power, and culture as they come to mingle in a human body-becoming-runner.

Key Words: autoethnography • Gilles Deleuze • technoscience • affect • bodies

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 11, No. 2, 157-169 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800404273409


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