"Feel what the medium has done to you" : YIN AIWEN

Taking media analyst Marshall McLuhan's famous theoretical pun that "the medium is the massage" almost to the letter as a staring point, chinese artist Yin Aiwen designs a performance-installation in which massage plays a central part, until the initial statement appears to be reversed, and "the massage" re-installs itself as "the medium". A true human massage ultimately appears as a possible antidote to the panoply of psycho-physical pains quite willingly (=unconsciously?) inflicted to oneself by the modern human, otherwise "massaged" into a disembodied alienation by the soft, gentle, falsely-caring mass media machinery. 

I as a masseuse happen to think so highly about massage, and this work strikes me as remarkable. I may have a few hesitations about the piece (mostly about the dispositive), still I feel it is conveying important, inspiring, and potentially emancipative material. 

The dispositive is as follow: Yin Aiwen gives a 15 minutes a chinese medical massage to a participant installed in a massage chair, at the headset of which is installed a tablet playing a video-montage of clips from mass culture. A voice over reads, in a more or less relaxing, therapeutical tone, a text exploring the relationship between media, machines (computers specifically) and the receiver's body, their pain, their vitality, all along questioning them, engaging them in instructive feedback loops with their sensations. A small audience is invited to watch the session. 

It is almost a clever piece of reverse engineering, Yin Aiwen giving a massage and deducing, from the informations she collects at her expert fingertips, the design of the "end product", the end product here being the human being in the capitalist world... So that she could then re-build this human being, re-model them, correct them, free them from this socio-economical-mechanical blocking ?

I have not assisted to the performance myself, so my judgment and impressions are of course limited. I only watched the video documentation, which I find was already quite an experience, and I strongly advise you to watch it ! As for the text, for which I post below a full transcript, it contains some real gems and, in the light of my own experience, it speaks a lot of truth, however in somewhat dark aspects of it. 

In the end, the piece altogether appears to be slightly too demonstrative, still too spectacular to my taste and somewhat cruel for the receiver (!) but Yin Aiwen completely admits it, for it serves her purpose exactly: "The harsh, ruthless massage has no interest in your pleasure", she writes. It sure does get the "message"/"massage" across !

However I believe this "message" is in essence one that emerges from all good massage during a private session. Indeed, a good massage will inform you of your condition. Here and now, and before, and even possibly give you an insight on after. It will move and question those layers of histories embedded in your flesh, sometimes it will allow images, memories, dreams, fantasies, to flash behind your eyelids, without a video being necessary. It will present to your consciousness, at your own pace, material very personal, possibly life improving; hints, cues, directions given by your senses to finding yourself again, connecting with yourself so that you be again the one "living" rather than the one being "operated" by. This way of the massage is known, and listened to, by many massage artists, practicians and therapists.This piece speaks to me of the substance of which good unbeatable human massage sessions are made of. Thank you Yin Aiwen ;) 

Find out more about the Massage is the medium by Yin Aiwen here. 

Text is by Yin Aiwen. 
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Welcome to the plug in systems.

Your body will be massaged in a few seconds,

Please relax...

You are going to experience a story that is specifically made by you, enjoy.

Please relax...

Some cream will be applied to your neck and shoulders,

It's going to be fine,

Things will be nice and smooth...

Good

That's right

After your fifteen minutes massage, you'll feel free like never before.

Now your neck is being touched, does it hurt ?

Have you noticed this type of pain before ?

I know you work in front of the computer a lot, picture that scene :

Do you see your face with the screen light on, glowing in the dark, just like everyone else ?

You work late quite often, don't you ?

The quiet night... Only the sounds of your keyboard is in company.

Do you feel those blocks here ? It hurts a lot, doesn't it ?

You must be the kind of person that is constantly thinking, probably getting annoyed by it sometimes.

Your tired brain creates this block.

It's in the way in which your brain gets all the supplies.

So when it gets blocked, the supplies - oxygen, nutrients, and blood - will have difficulties to get into your brain.

Tiredness must be an old friend of yours.

That's why you need this massage :

To clear out the scene, to make it work again...

Computers change you, starting from your hands,

Grow into your chest, get into your back, then to your neck, and eventually, to your brain...

I know you thought that your body was irrelevant, didn't you ?

Otherwise, you wouldn't let it be like this...

As if it's just the operator of your mind, and you thought your mind is eternal,

travelling in the infinite universe, pluging into the mortal nervous circuits, being free...

The strain muscle you have, many people have it nowadays.

It used to be a professional injury for people doing paperwork.

But nowadays, almost everyone has it.

Even children have it.

See how stiff your front neck is.

It indicates the condition of your chest

Like here, the end point of your chest muscles, and the starting point of your arms'...

Do you feel how it goes all the way down to the hand that types the keyboard ?

Your injured body has become the burden of your digital soul.

It's ok, many people thought so.

People say fickleness is the theme of society now

Streaming tweets, 24/7

Optical transmission, day and night...

The facebook « one for all, all for one » utopia, right in front of your eyes...

Your fingers dance on your keyboard non-stop

Your Iphone camera flashes at every corner of your life

Your exciting brain on wire, all season...

You are so willing to share yourself to the world,

That you are pleased to shatter yourself into a hundred and forty pieces...

All the consequences then fall on your back,

Sink into your neck, permeate your brain...

They change you so quietly that you thought it's your choice.

Do you see your face with the screen light on, glowing in the dark, just like everyone else ?

Physical pain is easy to forget of course.

That's why you constantly hurt yourself.

Do you see how badly you have hurt yourself ?

It's so painful it almost becomes emotional.

Feel it...

Feel what has happened to you...

Feel what the medium has done to you...

Think about what you have done to yourself...

Can this pain that you have done to yourself make you regretful ?

The medium is the massage.

The sweet exciting kind of massage, catering to your every wish,

Manufacturing your desire, regulating your recognition,

Until you can't tell if there is another kind of life anymore...

All you can see is what has been given,

ALL that has been given is ALL you can imagine...

In the world of cyber capital

Everything is soft, fluffy, gentle, fulfilling...

Like a massage.

Satisfying your longing to be cared for, to feel special, to feel loved...

All you need to do is to pick a set that is all designed.

Yes, the special design, only for you...

And a million duplications of you.

You think this massage is made for you, don't you ?

Like this, it happens for a reason,

Reasons that are based on your condition

But so many people have the same condition,

The same analysis of you...

I did it to dozens and dozens and dozens of people.

You are the same, you are all made the same.

Together you are precious, together you are special,

Together you are unique, together you are alone.

It's not enough that machines code your life.

It's not enough that they design every inch of your life.

You will only be perfect when its perspective becomes yours,

Your only perspective.

Only then you will have your true freedom :

Boundless, painless, senseless, heartless...

Do you see your face with the screen light on, glowing in the dark, just like everyone else ?

In this optical fiber world, you are transcendant.

Your face is flattened after the speed of light.

You can barely see others faces, and others can barely see yours.

So you talk as loud as you can, in one way or another,

So you can grab as many hurried travellers as possible...

After all, the mass man needs the proof of his living...

So fifteen minutes of attention is already an extravagance.

If possible a massive killing weapon is in favour.

So taking a massage to you becomes a very odd, even uncomfortable idea, doesn't it ?

You needed to have so many decent reasons to give yourself in, didn't you ?

But you need this massage.

Through others hands, it reminds you that you are still human.

Through the pain, it reminds you that you are not entirely numb, yet.

You are more than the electrical signals from your neurons.

Your communication with people is more than a faceless P2P transmission.

The massage is the medium.

This person behind you, who's touching you, trying to find out what happened to you,

Do you see her as a human ?

Two euros slide in a coin slot, and a piece of hamburger jumps out...

She's not a walking commodity, providing catalogue services,

But that's why you felt uncomfortable about the idea, isn't it ?

It's a better design that pryes your heart with a decent distance...

Have you noticed the silent communication between you and her ?

Or are you just struggling to fight with your body, learning about yourself ?

It's ok, she knows what you have been through.

Underneath the fingertips size of skin that she connects to you, your trembling muscles are shedding a tear...

She knows.

The pain you're experiencing is the last mayday your body screams out to you, do you hear that ?

Feel it...

Feel your blood running through your body...

So powerful, as if you are alive again...

Feel this warmth inside, as if you are being cared for...

Feel what is happening now...

Feel where they came from, and where they will go...

Feel it, before this massage comes to an end...

I would like to thank you for dedicating yourself to this experiment.

I hope it means something to you.

Before you unplug yourself,

Please take a deep breath,

And I would like to ask you : Do you think I am human ?

ABOUT HACKERS AND DEPRESSION

Some interesting material related to hackers' psychological well being/health in the article CRACKING SUICIDE: HACKERS TRY TO ENGINEER A CURE FOR DEPRESSION, By Adrianne Jeffries. Full text here. 

EXTRACTS : 

WHAT'S IN A HACKER ?
(...)

Bernadette Schell, vice-provost at Laurentian University, studied hackers for more than a decade. (...)

She wanted to know whether hackers matched their portrayal in the media, which at the time considered them maladjusted cyber-psychopaths. "I kept looking for everything that would support these myths," she said. 

"What I found was that the hacker community was a very well-adjusted group of individuals." At the time, the perception was that hackers were computer addicted, high-strung type A personalities. But the hackers in Schell’s study turned out to be emotionally balanced, "self-healing" type B personalities. They were a bit more introverted than the average population, but still socially connected. Most were employed and made more than the median income level. Incidence of depression was not higher than in the general population. (In fact, some studies have shown that engineers, a group that has a lot of overlap with hackers, have one of the lowest depression rates compared to other occupations.) The hackers were so resilient that even being sent to jail or charged for hacking crimes did not affect their reported stress levels long term.

JUST FIX IT 

(...)

The roboticist, hacker, and Discovery Channel personality Zoz, also known as Andrew Brooks, served as a student mentor while getting his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He ended up counseling a lot of depressed undergrads who tried to reverse-engineer a solution rather than seek help. Many hackers even refer to their strategies for dealing with depression as "hacks." 

(...)

Of course, depression can be difficult to synthesize into a math problem. The cause is usually a combination of cascading factors that are often difficult to trace. The solution can be even harder to pin down.

"It can be incredibly frustrating to be sitting there, looking at your own brain, and going, ‘right, I entirely understand that something is not quite right with the way that my neurotransmitters are communicating with the receptors in my brain,’" Patterson said. "‘I recognize that I can tinker with this balance and otherwise engage in manipulations of my own mental state to try to resolve this situation. I understand all of this, and why is it not working?’"

HACKING TOWARDS SOLUTIONS 

(...)

The popular impression that hackers have a high suicide rate could be because many of the hackers who killed themselves were at the top of their fields, and the highly gifted are statistically more likely to suffer from depression. The community’s facility for dissecting, analyzing, and communicating on the internet — a medium that naturally amplifies its message — has also contributed to the perception that there is a hacker suicide crisis

In reality, the situation is getting better. While there are still some negative associations with mental health issues among hackers, that’s true of most cultures. Like the broader public, awareness of mental health issues is growing, and resources like BlueHackers.org, which has information about depression geared to hackers, and IMAlive, an instant message version of a suicide hotline, have helped countless hackers through their issues. Hackers are also eager to help each other; the line for Baldet’s talk started forming 20 minutes before it was set to start, and she was mobbed by questioners afterward.

Six months after Sassaman died, Patterson appeared on a panel called "Geeks and Depression" at the 2011 Chaos Communication Congress (CCC), an international hacker conference.

DUTY OF CARE

Julian Assange in conversation with reporter Liz Hayes for 60 minutes, August 4th :  

JA: Bradley Manning* is a hero, we should just say it very very clearly. He's a hero.
LH: Do you have sleepless nights about Bradley Manning ?
JA: I'm not the type to toss and turn worrying about something. If I'm not sleeping it is because I'm plotting how to deal with the situation. 
LH: But the vehicle that you provided for him is...
JA: They wouldn't be treating Bradley Manning in the way that they are now if it was not for the fact of our publications, absolutely.
LH: As a human being does that cause you any level of distress ?
JA: It's just, we see him as someone who we have a shared destiny with, as someone who's alleged to be one of our sources, we have some kind of duty of care for him, absolutely. 

* Bradley Manning has since asked to be called Chelsea Manning, with respect to her desire to live as female. Read her statement here. 

LES PIERRES QUI ENSEIGNENT L'ART DU MASSAGE (ATELIER)

Jeudi 23 mai dernier, j'ai animé un atelier découverte à l'école Biopulse Formation Massage à Paris. Dans des exercices anatomiques et sensoriels utilisant des pierres, nous sommes allées à la rencontre de la structure minérale du corps : les os. Ces explorations nous ont servi de préambule poétique à la réalisation de massages puisant leurs techniques et leurs intentions dans les massages biodynamiques. 

En bonus, voici un chant de pierres dédicacé et interprété par HOMO/HystericalOneManOrchestra, participant de la première heure de cet atelier né dans les montagnes du nord du Portugal. 

Stone glove, Brian Belott 

Le beau geste

Pour vous, qu’est-ce qu’un « beau geste » ?

Je ne peux imaginer le beau geste que lent. J’aime beaucoup le geste de prendre des choses invisibles. Il y a toute une énergie dans le beau geste, une énergie qui ne se résout pas à la surface de la peau. Ce geste serait le véhicule de beaucoup de choses invisibles. 

Claude Jamain, artiste mime, dans un entretien pour la revue Geste. 




Ci dessus, extrait du catalogue de geste, de l'artiste Natasha Nisic 

La Petite Danse du corps debout - A Pequena Dança do corpo em pé

Steve Paxton, danseur, chorégraphe, créateur de la Danse Contact Improvisation à la fin des années 70, appelle Petite Danse l'ensemble des mouvements réflexes d'ajustement pour simplement se tenir debout. 

Steve Paxton, dançador, coreografo, criador da dança contacto improvisaçao na fim dos anos 70, chama a Pequena Dança o conjunto de movimentos reflexos ativos so para ajustar-se para ficar em pé. 

"I regard the “small dance” as the reflexes that adjust everything to keep you upright. The event is so normal, so frequent, and so small that we ignore it."

Description de la Small Dance, être debout - Descriçao da Small Dance, estar em pé   

par - por Steve Paxton 

The text is to be delivered slowly, with pauses between each sentence.

Relax deep into the cone of the eye socket. Imagine a line that runs between the ears. That’s where the skull rests. Make the motion, very small, for “Yes.” This rocks the skull on the top vertebrae, the atlas. You have to intuit the bones. Like a donut. The sensation around it defines it. Do the motion for “No.” Between these two motions you can determine the length of the vertebrae.

… Ballooning of the lungs. Breathe from the bottom of the lung up to the clavicle. Can you expand the ribs out and up and back easily? Defining the diaphragm in terms of sensation. Bottom of the lung. Two domes of muscle. So with each breath you’re massaging the intestine… What the diaphragm is doing is a signal to the rest of the body. Sky above, earth below…

The head in this work is a limb. It has mass. Mass may be the single most important sensation. The feeling of gravity. Continuing to perceive mass and gravity as you stand. Tension in the muscle masks the sensation of gravity…

You’ve been swimming in gravity since the day you were born. Every cell knows where down is. Easily forgotten. Your mass and the earth’s mass calling to each other…

…Upward force of the bones. Shoulder blades fall down the back, relaxing the intestines into the bowl of the pelvis… In the direction the arms are hanging, without changing that direction, do the smallest stretch you can feel. Can it be smaller. Can you do less. The initiation of the stretch, along the length of bones, in the direction the force is already going. The small dance—you’re relaxing and it’s holding you up. The muscles keeping the weight throughout the skeleton. Shifting weight from leg to leg, interface, taking weight, compression. Stretching along the line of compression. Center of the small dance.

Upright position… spine erect… Feel the bottom of the lung, the diaphragm, feel it massage the organs, down into the bowl of the pelvis, relax your genitals and anus… breathe deeply… exhale slowly… feel the pause at the exhalation… watch for the beginning of the inhalation… This thing, time… full of rush and pause… feel time go by through the breath… don’t initiate the breath… just watch that period… try to catch your mind, the exact moment when the inhalation starts again…

Standing… Relax erect with the weight toward the back half of the knee, put some weight on the balls of the feet… relax the scalp… relax the eyelids… relax behind the eyes… deep into the cone of the eye socket… don’t spend any energy blocking or focusing… let your ideas flow… because certain things mask other things… and it’s better for this right now to have no concentration… feel the play of rush and pause of the small dance that holds you upright when you relax… through simple mass and balance… 60% on the ball of the foot, some to toes, rest back… knees a little relaxed… Let your breath guide your torso, make you symmetrical… let your ribs be open to the ballooning of the lungs… arms fall sideways… Feel the small dance… it’s always there… think of the alignment of the bones, limbs, towards the center of the earth… length of the bone…

…Take your weight over your left leg… what is the difference… in the thigh, in the hip joint… Calling this sensation “compression,” take compression over the right leg, feel the change… compression down the length of the bone… Take your body to neutral… lean forward… compression in front, stretch in back… back to neutral… lean backwards, stretch in front, compression in back… don’t have compression in the arms, there’s no weight there… lean forward again… feel the difference… relax… neutral… lean back, stretch along the length of your body… neutral… stretch up… let the spine rise through the shoulders… let the head be supported on a line between the ears… make the motion for “Yes,”… rock the head… the atlas… make a stretch connection, a long line of stretch between the ball of the foot and the atlas, between the toes, the ball of the foot up the leg to the spine, to the atlas… You’ve been falling in gravity since the day you were born…

Imagine, but don’t do it, imagine that you are about to take a step forward with your left foot. What is the difference? Back to standing…

Imagine but don’t do it, imagine that you are about to do a step with your left foot. What is the difference? Back to standing…

Imagine but don’t do it, imagine that you are about to take a step with your right foot… your left foot… your right… your left, right, left…… standing.

…Slowly let your body collapse into a squat… release into a voluntary fall. Breathe, squatting with hands on the floor, neck relaxed… see if you can relax in this position… and come up. 

SOURCES

Extraits de conférence de Steve Paxton, publiés par le contact quarterly (2008) 
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La description de Steve Paxton pour prendre conscience de la Small Dance debout, relaxé, publiée au départ dans le Contact Quarterly, Volume 11, No. 1, Winter 1986; re-publiée dans le livre Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Volume 1, 1997, extrait présenté pour le 36ème anniversaire de la Danse Contact Improvisation

Heart Dance - Dança do Coração

Gil Hedley se définit comme un "somanaut",  explorateur de l'intérieur du corps humain. Dans cette vidéo, il propose une danse centrée sur le coeur pour illustrer la circulation du sang à travers tout le corps, sans oublier le passage oxygénant par les poumons. Un exposé d'anatomie vivant.

Gil Hedley se define como um "somanaut", explorador do interior do corpo humano. Nessa video, ele propõe uma dança centrada sobre o coração para ilustrar a circulação do sangue através do corpo, sem escolher a passagem pelos pulmões para a oxigenação. Uma apresentação de anatomia em vivo.

Les maracas de la masseuse - as maracas da massagista

Les maracas seraient-elles l'instrument parfait pour l'épanouissement de votre masseuse ?

Rythme, écoute, équilibre, complémentarité, harmonie droite - gauche,
Souplesse, fluidité, des mains, des bras, de tout le corps par le son qui le traverse
Énergisation autour de soi et dedans
Dynamisation, appel 
On dit que les chamanes utilisent les percussions, tambours, hochets, maracas
pour créer un conduit, un passage vers les mondes invisibles....

Pour inspiration et quelques bases rythmiques, un petit document du Vénézuela

Acho que as maracas poderiam bem ser os mehlores intrumentos pelo crescimento da massagista!
Ritmo, escuta, equilíbrio, harmonia entre a direita e a esquerda, elasticidade e energia das mãos, dos braços, dinamização de tudo o corpo e do ambiente com o som... 
Dizem tambem que quando estão a tocar as percussãos, tipo maracas, os chamanes criam como um túnel para entrar em contacto com o mundo invisivel...

Trigger your shivers: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

Interesting, fun and relaxing material found on radio WFMU's blog about Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) 

ASMR is a " physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs" 

"Most ASMR episodes begin by an external or internal trigger, and are so divided for classification. Type A episodes are elicited by the experiencer using no external stimuli, and are typically achieved by specific thought patterns unique to the individual. Type B episodes are triggered involuntarily by an external trigger, via one or more senses, and may also involve specific thought patterns associated with the triggering event. Both types of triggers vary between individuals, but many are common to a large portion of ASMR enjoyers.

Common external triggers:

• Exposure to slow, accented, or unique speech patterns
  
• Viewing educational or instructive videos or lectures
  
• Experiencing a high empathetic or sympathetic reaction to an event
  
• Enjoying a piece of art or music
  
• Watching another person complete a task, often in a diligent, attentive manner - examples would be filling out a form, writing a check, going through a purse or bag, inspecting an item closely, etc.
  
• Close, personal attention from another person
  
• Haircuts, or other touch from another on head or back "

 source: ASMR research

It is quite common to experience that sensation when receiving a massage...or watching someone get one ! There are many external triggers to that sensation, they can be very surprising and/or quite personnal... WFMU's blog contributors playfully selected an assortment of videos made to induce ASMR in the viewer... What is/will be your trigger ? 

I like watching someone coloring with crayons. 

Don't shoot the messenger !

Le ventre émet des pulsations pleines, presque pointues, très proches de la surface, aux abords d'un noyau dense et contracté - probablement où se loge une douleur. Les pulsations sont réactives, rebondissantes, précipitées. De part en part, les premières couches de la peau sont parcourues de vibrations superficielles clairement captables sous la paume, de plus en plus répandues à mesure que le massage progresse et qu'une meilleure circulation générale s'établit; en fin de séance, les tremblements viennent. La gorge semble avoir rougit, est-elle serrée ? La mienne oui (je perçois). Il apparaît que quelque chose qui n'a pas été exprimé dernièrement, et qui se manifeste de façon plus pressante dans le corps - mais comme toujours en attente d'une autorisation- est peut-être en train de trouver sa voie/voix.

Quelle émotion souhaites-tu laisser s'exprimer maintenant ? Quel est le message qui est en train de voyager en toi ? Que souhaiterais-tu dire à propos de cette douleur que tu n'as pas dit encore ? Tu ne sais pas. Mais tu vas. Tu es ton premier destinataire: accueille les sensations et laisse venir s'accorder le sens avec = écoute ton message. C'est le moment de rétablir la connexion. Peut-être qu'ensuite tu auras aussi quelque chose à dire, un autre message, à quelqu'un d'autre, un autre destinataire, et que tu pourras l'émettre plus confortablement depuis toi. Peut-être que cela ne sera même plus nécessaire.

chorégraphie minimale

Yvonne Rainer, Hand movie, 1966

modelages

Pinchneck, Bruce Nauman, 1968

Be nice to me (flatten), Pipilloti Rist, 2004

Chi Hop

Bouge bouge l'énergie, ya pas que le Chi Qong

10 minutes de Hip Hop, et ça repart.

la fonction contenante de la coconut

Le poulpe invertébré et mou double la protection de son enveloppe corporelle par l'utilisation intelligente de noix de coco tombées au fond de l'océan. Le voici équippé d'un mobile home pour son être, abri contre les agressions en milieu marin. Les images ci dessous ont été recueillies par des chercheurs Australiens en plongée en Indonésie.





Nous retrouvons l'image du poulpe au détour des huits fonctions du Moi-peau décrite par le psychanalyste Didier Anzieu, qui sont les fonctions de maintenance, de contenant, de pare-excitation, d'individuation, d'intersensorialité, de surface de soutien de l'excitation sexuelle, de recharge libidinale, et enfin la fonction d'inscription des traces sensorielles tactiles (le Moi-peau se définissant comme un "concept opératoire précisant l'étayage du moi sur la peau en impliquant une homologie entre les fonctions du moi et celles de notre enveloppe corporelle (limiter, contenir, organiser).")

ICI p125 et 126:

"D'une façon générale, le Moi-peau est une structure virtuelle à la naissance, et qui s'actualise au cours de la relation entre le nourrisson et l'environnement primaire; l'origine lointaine de cette structure remonterait à l'apparition même des organismes vivants.

Les excès et les déficits du pare-excitation offrent des cas de figures très variés. Frances Tustin (1972) a décrit les deux images du corps qui appartiennent respectivement à l'autisme primaire et secondaire: le Moi-poulpe (quand aucune fonction du Moi-peau n'est acquise, ni celle de support, ni celle de contenant, ni de pare-excitation, et que le double feuillet n'est pas ébauché), le Moi-crustacé, avec une carapace rigide qui remplace le conteneur absent et qui interdit aux fonctions suivantes du Moi-peau de s'enclencher".

white lady spider, la navigation par les pattes

Le mâle de la nocturne dame blanche de Namibie "écoute" son chemin de retour vers son trou en enregistrant et interprétant à travers ses petites pattes les vibrations dans le sol du désert (hypothèse, à partir d'observations filmées ici par une équipe de la BBC Wildlife).
Dans une certaine mesure, je m'identifie à la white lady spider, ponctuant mon massage ma course de petits temps de pause, collée au plus proche du sol de la peau, à l'écoute des vibrations, des sensations qui me guident.

sweetheart