Le Breton: el sabor del mundo

Good evening. This video is about a chapter from David Le Breton's book, *The Taste of the World: An Anthropology of the Senses*. Let's begin by clarifying what the author means by "anthropology of the senses." He argues that it involves immersing oneself in the world. And what does " world" mean? If we take what we were saying before about the

relationship between subject and object, it's about not making a distinction between subject and object, that is, a subject and an object that become indistinguishable. It's not about being inside the world, but about immersing oneself in the world, not about being in front of it. Yes, because when we are in front of the world, that's when

the subject is differentiated from the object. In representation, if the subject is separated from the object, the object is in the picture and the subject is outside the picture. Here, it's precisely about plunging in, immersing oneself in that world. So, in this text, he develops the concepts of sensation and perception, which relate to how

we experience not only the world but also our own existence. We have this experience of the world and of ourselves thanks to sensations. Perceptions—if we didn't have sensations and perceptions, we not only couldn't experience the world, but we also couldn't have an experience of ourselves. So, what do sensations and perceptions do? What do the senses do?

How do the senses intervene? Well, they produce meaning. If he's going to say this phrase, "the senses produce meaning," then when we say "the senses," we're referring to the five senses, and when we say "produce meaning," we're referring to meanings. That is, the senses produce meanings. Let's think about the following infinite stimuli: we are