MACHINE-BODY: DIALOGUES BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE AND GYMNASTICS

Authors

  • Edivaldo Góis Junior Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP.
  • Carmen Lúcia Soares Universidade Estadual de Campinas. (UNICAMP). Departamento de Educação Física e Humanidades. Campinas, SP
  • Vinícius Demarchi Silva Terra Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Santos, SP.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.52754

Keywords:

Human Body. History. Science. Gymnastics.

Abstract

This article aimed to describe scientific discourse and modern practices about the body in the nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century, identifying the consolidation of the machine-body representation as influential in other practices such as literature, photography, and especially gymnastics in the context of European cultural production. Its sources were discourses of Claude Bernard and Georges Demeny. After analyzing those discourses, it concluded that the machine-body metaphor influenced gymnastics, which, in order to justify itself as a practice, in the Demeny´s words, evolved to its positive phase.

 

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Author Biographies

Edivaldo Góis Junior, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP.

Professor do Departamento de Educação Física e Humanidades e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física da Unicamp.

Carmen Lúcia Soares, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. (UNICAMP). Departamento de Educação Física e Humanidades. Campinas, SP

Professora do Departamento de Educação Física e Humanidades e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Unicamp.

Vinícius Demarchi Silva Terra, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Santos, SP.

Professor do Curso de Educação Física da Unifesp.

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Published

2015-08-24

How to Cite

GÓIS JUNIOR, E.; SOARES, C. L.; TERRA, V. D. S. MACHINE-BODY: DIALOGUES BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE AND GYMNASTICS. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 4, p. 973–984, 2015. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.52754. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/52754. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2025.

Issue

v. 21, n. 4, out./dez. 2015

Section

Original Articles

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