Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-11 Thread John Hopkins
Morlock, your comment is pithy, but it's a bullshit comparison. Just because it sounds good doesn't mean it's true. Access to the body is much more intimate than access to the brain. since when is the brain *not* totally unified w/ the body and vice versa? [despite Descartes is pumping his

Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
Several replies indicate wide-spread religious attitude towards intellect, a brain-body separation reminiscent of the traditional theories of language before biolinguistics put them out of business. Writing inane papers involves very physical changes in the brain, some more some less

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2012-02-11 Thread Matze Schmidt
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Re: nettime Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

2012-02-11 Thread Carl McKinney
as my wrists, neck, shoulders, back, and butt remind me, writing (whether inane or not) is a profoundly embodied practice. academics sell their bodies as do day laborers and sex workers. see martha nussbaum's whether from reason or prejudice. which is not to suggest these activities are all the