From Brennan:

• synaptic growth from concentration, learning, focus, living attention -- brain/body writing
• Need to develop language for connecting sensations, affects, and words, for connecting bodily processes and the coceptual understanding of them . . . Extending knowledge of sensations, following it further along its pathways, means extending consciousness into the body, infusing it with the conscious understanding from which it has been split hitherto (154)
• We need to extend our vocabulary -- make up words this semester!
• Information registered by organism can only be conveyed to consciousness when it can be named and translated into conecptual, linguistic information (155)
• Extending consciousness of sensation, finding the words or images, means grasping the nuances of fleshly grammar and alphabets (155).
• Link thinking to sensation, have thought vibrate with energy (157)
• Extension of conscious understanding = resurrection of body (161).

Elizabeth Grosz "The Body as Inscriptive Surface"

• Summing up Lingus, says: Body marking makes body a map of erotogenic -- extends erotogenic orifices and constitutes entire body as erotic (as opposed to narrowly confined/constructed genital-erotic)
  • marks body as public, collective social category: maps social, sexual, familial, maritial, economic position and identity (140)
• CORPOREAL INSCRIPTIONS:
  • Body writing and techniques of social inscription bind subjects according to sex, class, race, cultural age & codifications, social positions and relations (141)
    • prisons, juvenile homes, hospitals, psychiatric institutions --
    • means of confining, constraining, supervising, regimenting, marking body
      • handcuffs, electroshock, drug therapy
      • inscription of cultural and personal values and norms (schools, uniforms, etc.)
      • Life-styles, habits, behaviors
      • Make-up, heels, bras, hairstyles, grooming, gait, posture, body-building (142)
• BIOPOWER
  • Culturally specific grids of power, regulation, and force condition and provide technqiues for the formation of particular bodies (142)
  • Techniques of self-production (we are all caught up in models of self-production and self-observation)
  • Sexuality is one of the most important means of regulating individual and cultural bodies (152 - 3)
  • DISCOURSE
  • Nexus of desire-power-knowledge
  • Link to Judith Butler, "Bodies that Matter":
    • Power of performative utterance/ performance and discourse-text-body
  • & link to Donna Haraway, " In the Beginning Was the Word: The Genesis of Biological Theory"
    • Biology emerges as field in late 18th century and tells stories about bodies and lives, stories that in turn shape our lived bodies
    • must reinterpret received stories (such as David Barash's biological determinism and old Darwinian frame)
    • "Language generates reality in the inescapable context of power; it does not stand for or point to a knowable world hiding somewhere outside the ever-receding boundaries of particular social-historical inquiries (78)
    • Risky business: The power of naming a thing is the power of ojectifying, of totalizing it, BUT we need to re-appropriate the power of naming in order to counter the stories writing our bodies (refer back Brenna, where we need to connect language to affect and sensation)
      • "When a hitherto nameless feeling succeeds in identifying itself, consciousness feels release" -- this is the coming-together of affect and the right word (Brennan 149)

Sara Ahmed & Jackie Stacey “Introduction: Dermographies” from Thinking Through the Skin

• How does the skin come to be written and narrated?
  • Technologies of the skin
  • Inter-embodiment
  • Interace between bodies and worlds
  • Unstable borders between bodies