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| A limit may mean a [[norm]], [[border]] or [[boundary]]. | A limit may mean a [[norm]], [[border]] or [[boundary]]. | ||
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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--obediant 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] | ||
| == See == | == See == | ||
| *[[Transgression]] | *[[Transgression]] | ||
| ==Nonfiction books== | ==Nonfiction books== | ||
| *''Writing and the Experience of Limits.'' (1982) by [[Philippe Sollers]] | *''Writing and the Experience of Limits.'' (1982) by [[Philippe Sollers]] | ||
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A limit may mean a norm, border or boundary.
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--obediant 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]
See
Nonfiction books
- Writing and the Experience of Limits. (1982) by Philippe Sollers
