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BODY TOPOGRAPHIES IN ANTIOQUIA, CARTOGRAPHY OF ONESELF ABOUT WAR AND PEACE
Authors: Simón Montoya Rodas

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In this paper, I present the elaboration, which is the result of a question about the body asked in the first person singular. It is a reflection of oneself under the assumption that war has needed some bodies formed and disciplined in specific ways. The body is shaped from language and represents the ideals of a culture. The body, as a historical construction, is a text to be interpreted and mapped from phenomenologi-cal and critical exercises. Then, I present the systematiza-tions of two current experiences as a movement that allows symbolic constructions. I base this text on a family history reading, and how its agents have constituted the body; my ancestors’ experiences. Data are put together in a narra-tive plot structure that ends with current ethical positions in movement. I explore different literary works and find a body that goes from the force of progress, the destructive and violent men and the kind, strong and maternal women, to a fitness body, which symbolically begins to have pro-ductive loss and becomes a consumer. At this point, art and community become languages for the re-existence