corpography means a means of conceptualizing a battlefield or war through the physical forms of soldiers. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
noun
- a means of conceptualizing a battlefield or war through the physical forms of soldiers“In discussing the modern experience of battle, Derek Gregory has developed the neologistic concept of ‘corpography,’ explaining that ‘the radically different knowledges that the war-weary soldiers improvised as a matter of sheer survival [constitute] a corpography: a way of apprehending the battle space through the body as an acutely physical field in which the senses of sound, smell and touch wer”
- the study of the experience of living in a body“Their improvisational knowledges were intensely corporeal and constituted a ‘corpography’ whose constructions relied primarily on sound, smell and touch.”