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rax

Reading Notes: Mauss, pieces on "Body Techniques"

Oct 11, 2010 20:10

( Naturally, social life is not exempt from its stupidity and abnormalities. Error may be a principle. The French navy only recently began to teach its sailors to swim. )

notes, transsomatechnics

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lhexa October 12 2010, 02:10:37 UTC

Your notes give the impression of people who are way too quick to introduce new technical language.

...sadly all I have left is Heidegger.

I'm sorry. :( Uh, I hear some people find him not only inspiring but readable?

rax October 12 2010, 02:22:40 UTC

I'm reading "The Question Concerning Technology" and it's not nearly so bad as I expected. I am helped in that one of my classmates has taken good notes on it already (although this means, perhaps lazily, I am not taking good notes of my own).

I may focus on the new technical language because that's what I feel I need to remember, although I'm confident that's true of Mauss here, that he's very quick to introduce new technical language. It flows decently well though, from him, where from some other authors it does not.