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:[[Foucault]] credits [[Nietzsche]], via [[Bataille]], [[Blanchot]], [[Klossowski]] with the motivating theme of the "limit-experience." This is the attempt to reach the other, the outside, by an experience that rewires the body and restructures the categories. The two are related: a centrally organized and hierarchized body--obedient and [[docile]], "clean"--will produce arborific, State, categories centered on unity and presence. In general, bodily constitution conditions thought processes AND vice versa: "the soul is the prison of the body" writes Foucault in ''Discipline and Punish'': a certain conception of the body (that it is the prison of the soul) arises from and in turn structures bodily practices (enforced self-observation to detect flaws and internalize [[norm]]s) that limit body potentials along predictable ("normal") pathways ("we do not yet know what a body is capable of," says [[Spinoza]] in the ''Ethics''.) --John Protevi via http://www.protevi.com/john/Foucault/Reading_Foucault.html [Sept 2006] | :[[Foucault]] credits [[Nietzsche]], via [[Bataille]], [[Blanchot]], [[Klossowski]] with the motivating theme of the "limit-experience." This is the attempt to reach the other, the outside, by an experience that rewires the body and restructures the categories. The two are related: a centrally organized and hierarchized body--obedient and [[docile]], "clean"--will produce arborific, State, categories centered on unity and presence. In general, bodily constitution conditions thought processes AND vice versa: "the soul is the prison of the body" writes Foucault in ''Discipline and Punish'': a certain conception of the body (that it is the prison of the soul) arises from and in turn structures bodily practices (enforced self-observation to detect flaws and internalize [[norm]]s) that limit body potentials along predictable ("normal") pathways ("we do not yet know what a body is capable of," says [[Spinoza]] in the ''Ethics''.) --John Protevi via http://www.protevi.com/john/Foucault/Reading_Foucault.html [Sept 2006] | ||
+ | == See also == | ||
+ | *[[Experience]] | ||
+ | *[[Limit]] | ||
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Foucault and the 'limit experience'
- Foucault credits Nietzsche, via Bataille, Blanchot, Klossowski with the motivating theme of the "limit-experience." This is the attempt to reach the other, the outside, by an experience that rewires the body and restructures the categories. The two are related: a centrally organized and hierarchized body--obedient and docile, "clean"--will produce arborific, State, categories centered on unity and presence. In general, bodily constitution conditions thought processes AND vice versa: "the soul is the prison of the body" writes Foucault in Discipline and Punish: a certain conception of the body (that it is the prison of the soul) arises from and in turn structures bodily practices (enforced self-observation to detect flaws and internalize norms) that limit body potentials along predictable ("normal") pathways ("we do not yet know what a body is capable of," says Spinoza in the Ethics.) --John Protevi via http://www.protevi.com/john/Foucault/Reading_Foucault.html [Sept 2006]
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