“Can touch be expropriated from the body without consequences? With touch, the body opens itself to the outside (Merleau-Ponty said the body orients itself towards the world to fulfill its plasticity)”
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“Being in and toward the world is illustrated by intentionality, which is not a re-presentation but a presence. Therefore, it is not about a conscious imagining, or wanting to represent something that is absent, it is in fact there, present in its ambiguity but also present in its refusal to be fragmented”
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