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To examine how decades of disciplined Taijiquan movement reshape practitioner consciousness, framing these transformations through Deleuze and Guattari's cosmological concepts.

July 30, 2021Anthropology of Consciousness

The Emergence of a Rhizomatic Mode of Consciousness through Body Movement: Ethnography of Taijiquan Martial Artists

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TPTomáš PaulMasaryk University

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Ethnographic study demonstrates gradual transformations toward rhizomatic consciousness in Taijiquan practitioners, suggesting movement cultivates fluid, ever-changing perceptual states.

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To examine how decades of disciplined Taijiquan movement reshape practitioner consciousness, framing these transformations through Deleuze and Guattari's cosmological concepts.
Conducted an ethnographic investigation mapping the bodies, places, and relational networks of Taijiquan martial artists in the Czech Republic.
Applied theoretical frameworks of arborescent versus rhizomatic systems alongside concepts of deterritorialization and reterritorialization to interpret longitudinal changes in conscious states.
Demonstrated that Taijiquan consciousness evolves gradually across years or decades of physical practice rather than through sudden, acute transitions between ordinary and extraordinary states.
Characterized the practitioner's mental state as a fluid, rhizomatic continuum marked by complementary cycles of dissolving perceptual boundaries (deterritorialization) and re-establishing them (reterritorialization).

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Tomáš Paul (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6ff16fe36a167817e1aa79 https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12137

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Ethnographic study demonstrates gradual transformations toward rhizomatic consciousness in Taijiquan practitioners, suggesting movement cultivates fluid, ever-changing perceptual states.

The Emergence of a Rhizomatic Mode of Consciousness through Body Movement: Ethnography of Taijiquan Martial Artists

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