| located bodies |
| an argument Ð | |
| we find ourselves in connections | |
| through articulations of people and things | |
| in particular circumstances (location/context matters) | |
| Ð for distributed bodies | |
| ten located bodies |
| this will be my particular take on our course bodies in place Ð presenting ten different kinds of located body | |
| it will be by no means an exhaustive list | |
| they will not be exclusive categories but will overlap and complement | |
| the ten are suggestive rather than definitive | |
| located bodies Ð one the citizen body |
| Socrates in Athens - the classical polis |
| the dialogue Ð Crito |
| Crito wants to get Socrates out of Athens | |
| Socrates answers with an argument about the state and its citizens | |
| about the constitution of the state and order | |
| and about the constitution of the good life |
| the polis |
| Socrates discusses duty and the obligations of the individual to the collective | |
| some terms he uses | |
| hoi Athenaioi Ð the Athenians Ð fellow politai | |
| hoi polloi Ð the many, the majority, the mob | |
| he polis Ð the state | |
| to koinon Ð the commonwealth | |
| hoi nomoi Ð laws | |
| homologia Ð the (social) contract | |
| consider Crito 50a |
| the alternative to his citizen identity |
| Thessaly Ð dislocation | |
| some terms applied to Thessaly | |
| metoikein Ð to live as an alien | |
| (no) homologia Ð no social contract | |
| ataxia Ð disorder (cf kosmos) | |
| akolasia Ð license and incontinence | |
| Socrates would be out of place and laughable |
| Athens Ð hoi Athenaioi |
| Socrates and Plato are discoursing in the city of Athens |
| the urban state |
| a public sphere for an elite citizen body | |
| spaces for a leisured class to meet, talk, take decisions | |
| a physical setting for an oral and literate culture | |
| where democracy happened |
| the ekklesia Ð the assembly | |
| the boule Ð the council | |
| the importance of public speaking, leadership, argument, rhetoric |
| democratic imperialism |
| the Athenian Empire | |
| class conflict Ð old aristocracy, new citizen mobility, citizens and others | |
| old patterns of patronage and leadership giving way | |
| war Ð with Sparta, Korinth and Syracuse Ð and defeat | |
| the sophists |
| Socrates was identified with this group of intellectuals and teachers who serviced the desire on the part of the citizen body to learn and practice public discourse | |
| some names Ð Gorgias, Protogoras, Euthydemos | |
| developing an intellectual discourse pertinent to these urban and political spaces | |
| Plato despised them (seeing Socrates as pursuing not the skill of discourse per se but its object Ð questions of right and wrong) | |
| sophistry and dialectics |
| the importance of peitho Ð persuasion | |
| sometimes caricatured as the skill of arguing any case Ð whatever the truth or consequences | |
| sometimes associated with an aversion to popular will Ð seen as ignorant and manipulated by the skilled speaker (this sometimes given as the reason for the downfall of Athenian democracy) | |
| the sophists |
| part of an intellectual shift to making people the center of thought and debate | |
| through some classics oppositions such as | |
| nomos and phusis Ð convention and reality | |
| might and right | |
| located bodies Ð one the citizen body |
| where is it located? | |
| in such urban, urbane | |
| and political spaces | |
| riddled with contradiction and tension | |
| the spaces and the community | |
| constitute each other | |
| Athens is the Athenians | |
| just as the physical community | |
| is the citizen | |
| Socrates relates himself to this | |
| polis of constituted politai | |
| Slide 15 |