The body as a living archive:
memory and sensitive knowledge
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33871/21750769.2026.22.1.11653Keywords:
Embodied Cognition, Body, Memory, Sensitive KnowledgeAbstract
The Cartesian tradition has been challenged by contemporary approaches that integrate the body as a constitutive element of mental processes, opening important paths toward a more sensitive understanding of human beings and their experiences. Through a dialogue between embodied cognition, neurosciences, and the arts, this article reflects on the body as a living archive that is constantly updated. The aim of this article is to reflect on how memory, understood as an embodied process, manifests and operates as a form of sensitive knowledge. Memory, treated here as a complex, dynamic, affective, and sensorimotor process, continuously updated in the present moment, becomes embodied knowledge, presenting itself as a sensitive experience even before it becomes words.
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