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-	A '''limit-experience''' is a type of [[action]] or [[experience]] which approaches the edge of living in terms of its [[intensity]] and its seeming [[impossibility]]. This approach has been lead to the seeking of limit experiences as a sort of [[mysticism]]. A limit experience breaks the [[Subject (philosophy)|subject]] from itself. The idea is associated with [[Georges Bataille]], [[Maurice Blanchot]], and [[Michel Foucault]].	+
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-	== Foucault and the 'limit experience' ==	+
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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]	+
-	== See also ==	+
-	*[[Experience]]	+
-	*[[Limit]]	+
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