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These are the activities of rehearsals, where the language that describes orgasms
and gives ingredient lists of delectable food renders musical bodies still.
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Notes
1. Michel Serres, Angels: A Modern Myth, trans. Francis Cowper (Flammarion: Paris,
1995)131-132.
2. Personal fieldnotes, vol. 4 (March 2001) 20.
3. Ibid. 35.
4. Personal fieldnotes, vol. 5 (May 2001) 5.
5.
M. Langer, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology o f Perception: A Guide and
Commentary (Florida State University Press: Tallahassee, 1989) 32.
6. Jeffrey Compton, “Embracing the Body of Culture: Understanding Cross-Cultural
Psychology from the Perspective of a Phenomenology of Embodiment” 2001,4.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. The description of the pained ankle goes further than being simply a nice illustrative
device, for band members describe rehearsal periods as painful. Pain is often the catalyst
for the rise of the present body, and it is no coincidence that band members find ushering
in the present body a painful experience. This ethnographic data is the subject of a
forthcoming article t hat contrasts Serres’s notion of bodily joy with Nietzsche’s concept
of the habitual pain of living.
10. David Abram, The Spell o f The Sensuous: Perception And Language In A More Than
Human World (Pantheon Press: New York, 1996) 52.
11. Jack Katz, How Emotions Work (Chicago University Press: Chicago, 1999) 314.
12. Personal fieldnotes, vol. 4 (June 2001) 16.
13. Ibid. 17.
14. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith
(Routledge and Kegan Paul: London, 1962).
15. Michel Serres, Les Cinq Sens (Hachette Paris, 1998).
16. Serres,
131-132.
17. Ibid. 132.
18. Merleau-Ponty, op. cit. 1.
19. Serres, Angels 132.
20. Steven Connor, “Michel Serres’s Five Senses,” expanded version of a paper given at
the Michel Serres conference held at Birbeck College May 1999, , 1999,6.
21. Michel Serres, Genesis, trans. Genevieve James and James Neilson (University of
Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1995) 34-35.
22. Ibid. 34-35.
23. Serres, Les Cinq Sens, 405.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid. 334.
26. Ibid. 8.
27. Connor, op. cit. 9.