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Science and Art
Daston -- Structural objectivity calls for a renunciation of images in the sciences, and finds universal truth only in equations and mathematical systems claimed to be universal across cultures and perceptual aparatuses. Here, the private self is the enemy
Structural objectivity was preceded by mechanical objectivity, which demonized the willful self, and sought refuge in mechanical modes of production as separate from self
In the Reformation, Catholic authorities wanted to go back to being a people of the book and so renounced images
Renunciation of images
There is a paradox to our predominantly visual culture, which understands vision to be subjective and unable to absorb true knowledge without the influence of mechanical apparatuses.
Defining images as subjective attacks their mode of production and also the perceptual aparatuses that bring them into existence
When applying this principle to envisioning the body, we arrive at a sort of paradox because if perception is not truth, how are we to understand we are limited to consciousness and enter a sort of Buddhist or mystical paradigm of awareness, but the thing we are trying to understand is the physical body in flesh and materiality. Also, even if we say that vision and other means of perception are not objectively true, they continue to pervade our experience and cannot be dissolved unless we become renunciates which is by no means the Western model for progress.
What is the relationship between ways of seeing, images of the body, and interoceptive/proprioceptive experience?
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The renunciation of images is tied to a more universal, pure truth but that always carries a totalitarian quality that limits individual expression and effectively intuitive or experiential knowledge in service of a false virtue
Why strive for universal objectivity when studying the body? We know that all bodies are different and that individual bodies have their own way of communicating illness or problems. The suppression of perceptual knowledge discourages intuition about illness and listening to one's own physical cues.
Duden -- In the Renaissance, portraiture and the way the body was "dressed and undressed" were important in shaping idealizations of women's bodies and how the physical body was held up to ideals
Kuriyama -- Greeks "discover bodies through both methods in tandem -- beauty sought by art is the truth that science seeks to understand
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