editor’S Section Introduction

Embodiment, cognition, and the relative motion of bodies—with respect to other bodies particularly and the material world generally—are at the very heart of human consciousness, they are the heart of consciousness. Without the proximity of the human body to other human bodies and without the movements of the body with respect to the world, we would not be able to experience ourselves as different from other selves, different from the world, different from the signs (representations) that we use to denote other parts of the world (Levinas, 1998). The movement of the human body and human flesh is the condition for anything like cognition, memory, apprehension and comprehension of the Self, the relation between thought and the world, and so on (Henry, 2000). The four chapters in this section focus on the movement of bodies and body parts and the translations they undergo in the conceptualization and reconceptualization of geometrical (graphical) objects and understanding.