From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
Subject: RE: a bit of everything plus a question - is habitus reproduced mimetically?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 06:51:37 +1000


Hey Iva/All,

Don't know about habitus in any authoritative detail yet to fully answer
your question, but one little point I will raise is with regards to:

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in this sense it
might be wrong to say he obscures the line between the 'exploiters and
the exploited' but rather points to the inadequacy of rationalist
emancipatory attempts that aim for a change in consciousness that would
automatically also lead to a change in practice. on the other hand, this
could also mean that a change in the field can only be effective, if it,
in a way, takes hold of the body. 

instead of changing the field, the potential political significance of
new types of knowledge is disabled through their entry into a
pre-established field. what you end up is a form of conflict resolution
- before the conflict.
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It seems as if bourdieu is laying he grounds for an
onto-phenomenological approach (flip side of embodiment, for me anyway),
at the limit of perception of the constitution of subject and object,
you cannot have knowledge 'of' something, knowledge 'is' something, with
the object and subject (the body). And trajectory through the field will
be determined by the relation between the various limits of perception
of the various agents. Hmmm, that is a gross bastardization of D&G, the
perception bit anyway, but I have been churning through the list of
papers I put up earlier, and in particular "The Social Space and the
Genesis of Groups" and (crap, no time) the section on perception
(funnily enough) outlines something similar. Some of the other papers on
that list refer to it, too (I'll extend this point later). So critique
must be of the terrain of field (the product of the limit of perception,
not perception itself, like a by product or something). The very terrain
on which the concepts are constructed, Virilio uses 'sol' to when he
says stuff about it (mainly changes in subjectivity). 

Gotta run,
Glen.


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