The Body in Religious Media Ecologies: The Case of Subaltern Latino Counterpublics

This paper explores the body-schematic and body-imaginative processes that underlie individuals’ participation in public sphere via religious media ecologies. Utilising embodied cognition social critique, authors outline how subaltern counterpublics make use of body to enact micro-oppositions mainstream discourses. The also discloses origins higher objectivities (identity, sense togetherness, justice, plausibility, opposition openness) embodiment. Discussing through prism cognition, as found Latin ecologies, constitutes a valuable alternative logocentric understanding consent. While dominant discourse privileges abstract formal Latino subalterns bodily, affective enactive affordances given by latter offer strategies for enacting imagination, bridging personal physically choreographed joint intentions. Embodied suggests constitutive process meaning makes most fundamental medium communication.