Bodymaps assembles all of the topics we have been discussing here—the mirror-image, the image of the other's body, technics, touch, the skin— and configures them so as to underscore the productive potentiality the body schema offers for restoring a tactile interface with the world. The "third space" at issue here is not some intermediate space that somehow splits the difference between operational and observational perspectives, but rather is more like the sensible-transcendental spatiality—the power to spatialize—that Merleau-Ponty, Gil, and Massumi all accord the phenomenal body.
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