ABSTRACT
This autoethnographic essay considers how a body is placed, both by its own and others’ labor. It tracks how that body is placed by position, established in time and space, made of use, and defined in relation to others. Its desire in doing so is to examine how a body communicates nonverbally, how it is constituted in interaction, and how it reifies and maneuvers around cultural logics. Nonverbal scholarship functions as a buried backdrop as the essay moves toward an affective understanding, a poetic rendering that speaks to and from the heart.
