ABSTRACT
The emergence of the body as an important focus and object of study within the humanities has begun the important work of reformulating many concepts that have been integral to contemporary theories. These include power, subjectivity, agency, technology, the human, life, the social, biology and more besides. Ann Game reinvents concepts such as attunement from spiritual practices that include Buddhism to describe the 'sensitive feel' that was required in her relationship with her paralysed horse and its eventual recovery. These aspects of experience suggest something else about bodies: not materiality, but perhaps an immateriality that is felt and registered but cannot easily be seen, known or understood. Many contemporary authors are arguing that immateriality is a defining theme that organizes a variety of different practices in advanced liberal societies.
