In my contribution, I will zoom in to a part of my doctoral thesis from 2021 where I relate boys’ war play to Erin Manning´s philosophy of movement. Manning (2021) states that individuals not only experience the world through perception, but by perceiving the world it is drawn into human experience. Rather than as something stable with an inner and outer zone, she describes perception as a field of relationships in a world full of dynamic processes where “forces take form”. The virtual momentum in the formation of a movement, arises already before we begin to move. A body perceives through a change in the environment that evokes sensual events. An inner movement becomes an outer movement in a folding, bridging between them. This intensive interplay between world and body never stops and there is no beginning or end to movement. Instead of a body/world idea, she describes movement as one with the world – as a body-world.

Manning, E. (2012). Relationscapes: movement, art, philosophy. MIT press. Theorell, E. (2021). Force, form, transformations: on kinesthetic musicality and body worlding in boy´s war play. Doctoral thesis, University of Stockholm.