MFA SEMINAR
WRITING AS RESEARCH
WITH JAMES SCHOFIELD

 

 

CONFERENCE, WHY?: AND ON PREPARING, EDITING & PRESENTING
WITH MARC HERBST

Foucault’s, "The Order of Things" (p.XV-XXIV) 1966

report1/20/23 -  RB

In this writing Foucault causes the reader to look at and analyze the epistemology  of our knowledge base. an important term that Foucault often refers to is episteme, which are embedded structures underlying the production of scientific knowledge in a certain time and place. “In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one episteme that defines the conditions of possibility of knowledge, whether expressed in a theory or silently invested in a practice” (p.168). The methodology that Foucault equips is archaeological inquiry , investigating the threshold between Classical knowledge (prior to the sixteenth century) and that separates us from Classical thought and constitutes modernity. The archaeological level of investigation is concerned with what made something possible (p.31).He points out that  human knowledge is profoundly historical  and that historical periods have epistemic assumptions which determine what is truth. He thoroughly analyses the limitation of human systems of thought. In our assigned passage he quotes the Chinese encyclopedia taxonomy of animals to show another system of thought. In the enumeration of the Chinese taxonomy of animals he points out only language can describe their reality in an unthinkable space. He does a detailed forensic analysis and discussion.  Foucault’s analysis brings out structural parallels for the researchers way of seeing subject in human sciences when He speaks of the space between our encoded eye and reflexive knowledge base. He goes on to state there is a space that liberates order according to culture and time as he speaks to what each culture speaks to with ordering codes and modes of being he desires to distinguish how we know we have knowledge as juxtaposed with our belief base as we look at the episteme of western culture. He seems to pull us toward questioning what acceptable discourse about a subject by is taking away the origins of biology, economics and linguistics.).

https://prismatically.blog/2021/07/01/book-summary-the-order-of-things-the-archaeology-of-the-human-sciences-michel-foucault/

TOUCH AT A DISTANCE
WITH CAROLINA MENDONÇA & CATALINA INSIGNARES

“Touch is the most personal of the senses. Hearing and touch meet where the lower frequencies of audible sound pass over to tactile vibrations (at about 20 hertz). Hearing is a way of touching at a distance and the intimacy of the first sense is fused with sociability whenever people gather together to hear something special.” M. Schafer

And thus we touch, as if the hands are small sensors that can go beyond the surface and touch landscapes that are in deeper layers of the body. The hand touches the different textures, colors, temperatures that form these landscapes. We will create a common space where we can be in touch at a distance. We will meet to listen to each other’s voices, and to the images accumulated in the layers of our bodies. Experiencing forms of communication that are vulnerable and fragile. A collective cacophony and a contradictory and incoherent collective body

 

SOMATIC - DISTINGUISHED FROM THE MIND OR SPIRIT. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS.

LISTENING-GIVING ATTENTION TO SOUND OR ACTION.

SOUND-SENATION PERCIEVED BY THE SENSE OF HEARING

TOUCH-TO TAP FEEL OR STRIKE SOMEONE