What do bodily sensations and your feelings have to do with politics?
Manos Tsakiris is Professor of Psychology at the Royal Holloway, University of London as well as Director at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings.
In this interview Manos shares his extensive academic knowledge of how a person's bodily state, experienced in part through #interoception, relates to decision-making. His publications on 'Visceral Politics' cover the philisophical history behind this perspective as well and cultural trends.
5:28 Emotion and Rationality in decision making
6:55 We are relational beings
9:55 Homeostasis and Interoception
18:15 The Queen and emotional regulation of the state
20:55 Social Communication for regulation
23:50 Merleau-Ponty on how embodiment gives us the world
27:25 The role of the insula in interoception
30:10 How sensing bodily signals relates to Body Image, self esteem and identity
33:20 Is there a cultural shift towards appreciating the affect and embodiment?
36:50 Embodiment and technology/AI
38:14 Is consciousness affect-based?
43:35 The Body Politic and the idea of the state and as a social contract
46:40 The body as a political object that the state should keep safe
52:00 GDP vs democratic governance as a measures success for a country or nation state
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