> And just to complicate things, many life-denying beliefs also make
> things more interesting ...
> (some bodily actions may only be possible if they have been
disciplined
> - technically accomplished musicianship for example?)
This seems to imply that tekhne is somehow life-denying. How so???
-m
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I actually wasn't trying to make that kind of connection.
All I was trying to do was illustrate the idea that if we take the
notion of disciplinary power as productive seriously then we have to
accept that there will be things that a disciplined body is capable of
that a non-disciplined body is not capable of - and then I was trying to
think of an example that we might like (in the way that Priests make man
an interesting animal - despite, or rather because of all the
ressentiment they embody). For some reason I thought of instrument
playing in that the way you are taught an instrument is the same as, or
open to the same description as disciplinary power's focus on small
repetitive and precise movements of the body - I read a paper on
orchestras in Mozart's time and before and basically most historians
seem to agree that the general standard of musicianship would have been
way lower than ours - and my contention is simply that bodies that have
been subjected to a disciplinary regime may be technically (as opposed
to expresively) more competent. - not that the two are exclusive of
course.
the opposition is just that I tend to prefer Punk to Mozart!
As for whether tekhne in general is life-denying? as a general
methodological point I don't make those kind of claims and don't think
that they are valid.
Jon.
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> things more interesting ...
> (some bodily actions may only be possible if they have been
disciplined
> - technically accomplished musicianship for example?)
This seems to imply that tekhne is somehow life-denying. How so???
-m
------------------------------------------------------
I actually wasn't trying to make that kind of connection.
All I was trying to do was illustrate the idea that if we take the
notion of disciplinary power as productive seriously then we have to
accept that there will be things that a disciplined body is capable of
that a non-disciplined body is not capable of - and then I was trying to
think of an example that we might like (in the way that Priests make man
an interesting animal - despite, or rather because of all the
ressentiment they embody). For some reason I thought of instrument
playing in that the way you are taught an instrument is the same as, or
open to the same description as disciplinary power's focus on small
repetitive and precise movements of the body - I read a paper on
orchestras in Mozart's time and before and basically most historians
seem to agree that the general standard of musicianship would have been
way lower than ours - and my contention is simply that bodies that have
been subjected to a disciplinary regime may be technically (as opposed
to expresively) more competent. - not that the two are exclusive of
course.
the opposition is just that I tend to prefer Punk to Mozart!
As for whether tekhne in general is life-denying? as a general
methodological point I don't make those kind of claims and don't think
that they are valid.
Jon.
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