Place and Communicative Body

The categories of ‘place’ and ‘body’ have been understood to be interdependent since the time of Aristotle. However, the relationship between these categories were understood in terms of the physics of inert matter. In this article, I argue that ‘body’ should be recast in a hermeneutical framing to be understood as fundamentally communicative. I articulate an account of ‘communicative body’ by way of Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s concept of ‘hylosemiotics.’ I argue that the relationship between this ‘communicative body’ and ‘place’ can be understood through Donald Davidson’s dialogical concept of triangulation. Thus body and place are understood to belong together in a network of dialogical exchange that gives rise to the possibility of intelligibility and apprehension as such.