Soma-Feminism | نسوية جسدية
Soma-Feminism
Deconstructing somatopolitics
We begin with the body, ask what shaped it, and deconstruct what we have grown accustomed to not seeing.
A field space for knowledge that begins with the body, where experience, matter, and power meet.
A field space for knowledge that begins with the body, where experience, matter, and power meet.
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Where We Move
We work in three adjacent spaces, not separate ones.
The Field
How do we live the body? Here we produce presence — not as raw material, but as lived knowledge.
Research
On the tools of control, how they become familiar and invisible, and on the body's resistance and the reclaiming of agency.
Writings
How do we write the body? Here we produce texts that move between body, experience, culture, and power.
What Is Soma?
What Are We Looking At?
Soma-Feminism is an experimental space for research, writing, art, observation, and reflection that begins with the body.
We read the body not only as biological matter, but as a lived field where sensations, experiences,
social relations, culture, and power intersect.
We do not only ask: What happens to the body?
We also ask:
What makes this body live what it lives?
And what may become invisible when power is repeated within everyday life?
The Soma Logic
How Do We Enter the Field?
1
The Body
The entry point into experience.
2
Experience
What we live, feel, and observe.
3
Trace
What experience leaves in sensation, movement, memory, and beyond.
4
Structure
What repeats and exceeds individual experience.
5
Power
What regulates the body and shapes the conditions of its existence.
6
Return
We return to the body to produce language, pose questions, and practice agency.
How Do We Read the Body?
What Are We Looking For, and How?
What Becomes Difficult to See?
Some forms of violence do not appear directly as violent acts. They may leave repeated traces in sensation, movement, pain, fear, behaviour, memory, silence, the relationship with the self, and boundaries.
Soma follows these traces without assuming in advance what they mean. We observe first. We separate observation from interpretation.
Soma follows these traces without assuming in advance what they mean. We observe first. We separate observation from interpretation.
Then we leave the question open.
How Does Power Work on the Body?
What tools, conditions, habits, discourses, and environments make control over the body possible, natural, repeated, or invisible?
And what happens when the body resists?
And who holds the right to define resistance?
And what happens when the body resists?
And who holds the right to define resistance?
And who decides that what is happening is not violence?
An Open Research Field
Soma does not begin with a closed list of subjects. We follow the question into the field.
Experience may open pathways connected to: the nervous system, sensory experience, memory, hormonal and biological processes, chemical forms of sedation or numbing, addiction, individual and collective patterns, technology, space, movement, and the relationship between body and power.
Experience may open pathways connected to: the nervous system, sensory experience, memory, hormonal and biological processes, chemical forms of sedation or numbing, addiction, individual and collective patterns, technology, space, movement, and the relationship between body and power.
These are pathways for research, not predetermined conclusions.
How Do We Work, and Where Do We Begin?
We do not begin with the result. We begin with the field. With living material. With experience as it is lived, not as it is imagined.
We Do Not Deprive the Project of Wonder
We enter deconstruction without knowing in advance what will emerge.
We give experience its time before turning it into interpretation. And we leave a place for the unknown within knowledge.
Wonder is not the absence of method. It is part of the method.
We give experience its time before turning it into interpretation. And we leave a place for the unknown within knowledge.
Wonder is not the absence of method. It is part of the method.
Our First Rules — Because we work with human experiences, we commit to our first rules:
No experience without conscious choice. No hypothesis before experience.
No interpretation before the separation between observation and interpretation.
We do not turn every personal experience into research material. We choose what enters the field, protect the one who lived the experience,
and allow the question to remain open.
No interpretation before the separation between observation and interpretation.
We do not turn every personal experience into research material. We choose what enters the field, protect the one who lived the experience,
and allow the question to remain open.
About Soma
Soma is still taking shape.
We do not treat the name as a closed definition.
It is a name for a research and experimental space that takes shape through research, art, observation, experience, and writing.
And if reality asks us to change the concept, the concept may change.
The body is our entry point.
Deconstruction is our method.
Feminism is our lens for reading power.
Experience is our field.
Research is how we test what we think we know.
And distance is what we re-engineer in every reading.