Body preserves past (in continuing ability to perform certain skilled actions)

• Representational memory (words/images)
  • Inscribing practice
  • phonetic (v. pictorial ) writing -- distances form signifier/object
  • phonetic principle initiates cultural break
  • writing changes communal meaning
  • inscribing memory: substitutes visual for acoustic memory and frees society from constraints of rhythmic memories
• v. Habitual memory (body's incorporated practices)
  • incorporating practice
  • postures
  • ability to disapprove transmits culture -- ex: postural behavior can be taught without verbalization or consciousness -- living models teach
  • living/incorporated memory depends on rhythm /performance -- inscribing meaning does not

Choreography of authority expressed through body

• embodies nature of our social existence
• Techniques of Bodies
  • David Efron's study of Traditional Italians and Ghetto Jews: Italian hand gestures a lexicon -- communicate object of though (80)
  • East European Ghetto Jews gestures communicate process of thinking
  • Two classes of gestures: referential and Notational
• Properties of Bodies
  • Example : table manners
  • Cultural control of appetite
  • Technical skills imbued with moral values
  • defines proper behavior
  • structure of feeling -- self control
  • Institutional control (as ink, what is a legitimate body) = social control
  • defines classes of people according to refined behavior
• Ceremonies of Body
  • Value of blood -- blood relation crucial in mechanisms and ceremony of power
  • mnemonics of body -- constant reminder of order of estate
  • symbolic capital symbolic power
  • ceremonial avocations and hereditary transmission (time to learn incroported/ing pracatices pp. 87 0 89
  • petit bourgeois embarrassment : gap between the socially legitimate body (recognizable by incorporations of bodies but not reproducible simply through recognition) and body that one had/is (i.e., experience of body as condition of un-ease, pp. 90 - 91)
• Habits as affective dispositions (link Bourdieu) -- predispositions formed through the frequent repetition of a number of specific acts (94)
  • inscribing practices write body out of scene of interpretation
  • transition from incorporating to inscribing practices-- Improvisation and innovation in incorporated practices individual, in telling; in inscribing practices, institutional -- economisation and scepticism(76)