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Doing things" (pag 44)
objects are shaped by work, and also take the shae of the work they do [tools shape practice shapes tools...]

occupation: of space, identity formation through work, and TOWARDNESS
how does this orientation take up time as well as space?

Heiddegger:
 the "equipmentality" of objects -> "what things or objects allow bodies to do: they have an "in-order-to" structure, which assigns or refers to something" [affordance?]
The writing table pints toward writing as well as to other objects  which gather around writing as tools that allow this kind of work. The writing table might also point toward the writing body, as that which becomes "itself" once it "takes up" the equipment and "takes up" space and time, in doing the work that the equipment allows the body to do.

"WHAT OBJECTS DO IS WHAT BRINGS THEM FORTH IN THE SHAPE THEY HAVE" // "the object (...) takes the shape of what it is for" // "the object is not just material, altough it is material: the object is matter given some form or another where the form 'ntends' toward something"
The wheel CAN roll --> the use of "can" here might help remind us that "usefulness" is not merely instrumental but is about CAPACITIES THAT ARE OPEN TO THE FUTURE.

for Heiddegger, the thing is "that around which the properties have been assembled"

TENDING TOWARDS is what shapes the form of objects --> form takes share through the direction of matter toward an action

Heiddegger: "ready-to-hand-ness" (when the hammer hammers) is different to "present-to-hand-ness" ¿? (pag 47)

in the moment of failure, the object is preceived as having properties (e.g.: being too heavy)

difference between "using" something and "perceiving" something /// 

"the failure of things" -> to question the presumption that things have properties, which do not point toward their "assignment" in a familiar and social order.
-> the body cannot extend itself through the object in a way that was intended. // --> The experience of this "nonextension"might then lead to "the object" being attributed with properties, qualities and values.

--> "what is at stake in moments of failure is not so much access to properties but attributions of properties, which becom a matter of how we approach the object."
"The moment of non-use is the moment in which the object is attributed as having properties, and it is the same moment in which objectsmay be judged insofar as they are inadequate to a task, the moment we 'blame the tool'"

-notion of "tooness": too high, too long, too... as justification of failure

- "These qualities only come to matter in terms of how objects and subjects work together; they cannot be assigned to the subject or the object, although in everyday experience such assignments do happen. Failure can of course be attributed to subjects as well as to objects: the subject can turn away from the object and toward itself" (e.g.: i am too short for this table) 
nhabiting Spaces (pag 51)
-> HOw DO BODIES "MATTER" IN WHAT OBJECTS DO?

-actions take place in time and space // "the nearness of certain objects is an effect of the work the body does, and the work the body does is what makes certain objects near. Action depends on how we reside in spade with objects(...)"

- spatial relations between subjects and others are produced through actions, which make some things available to be reached

- action  involves the intimate co-dwelling of bodies and objects

- Merleau-Ponty: "bodies are 'not the same' as other kinds of objects precisely given their different relation to space" "the body is no longer merely an object in the world", rather "it is OUR POINT OF VIEW in the world"


- a corporeal or postural schema gives us a global, practical and implicit notion of the relation between our body and things, and our hold on them. A system of possible movements, or 'motor projects' radiates from us to the environment. Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space [doubts about this difference!ans also about the notion of "us"/"our"?]

[ITEM: MakeHuman bug of gendered motion]

- BODIE SPROVIDE US WITH A TOOL ¿?? -> Mreleau-Ponty suggests that the body is not itself an instrument but a form of expression, a making visible of our intentions

-> space is not a container for the body // bodies move through space affected by the "where" (pag. 53)

- ORIENTATIONS are TACTILE
-Skin connects as well as contains

- "Bodies as well as objects take shape through being orientated toward each other, as an orientation that may be experienced as the co-habitation or sharing of space" (pág. 54)

-HISTORY of THE REACHABLE





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"queer lives do no simply trascend the lines they do not follow, as such lines are also the accumulation of points of attachment"

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Conclusion: