Category: Martial Studies/Martial Arts

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How to Become a Mobile Milieus (虛): A Deleuzian Reading of the Subjectivity of Taichi (太極拳)

How can the embodied subject be recreated as a chaotic, mobile, and creative space? In A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari propose intermediary “milieus” between rigid forms to be where creative chaos and transversal communication may happen. The question is: How can the already formed subjects like us become milieus? Taichi offers a