Recent articles in this journal advocated a cognitive poststructuralism as progress for human geography. This research has two flaws. The first is in the epistemological differences between poststructuralism and cognitive semantics, the field from which the authors were informed on embodied cognition. The second problem arises from the contradictions a cognitive poststructuralism would have to other embodied geographies espousing non-representational theory (NRT). This article details and then resolves these two problems in several discussions and relevant examples involving cognitive semantics, embodied realism, embodiment. The product is a non-contradictory poststructural cognitive semantic perspective that provides a possible future path for NRT.
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