RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Italian Fascism, Authoritarianism, Umberto Eco
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Reading hawking"s presence: an interview with a self effacing man. Movie show h as more human vs. mialet show a compounded, mediation. Sts perspective further destabilized individuals > unified subject. Distributed and extended body (572) one ponders the functioning of the genius mind. Work of the other makes hawking stable and allows him to emerge a genius - (573) all scientists are in some sense handicapped this work is invisible, while people think of hawking"s work as pure thought. Subject/ object distinction: hawking is object of care but also a subject who commands. Hawking"s 3 bodies never dies (1) natural - flesh and body (2) extended - machines and assistants (3) sacred - the genius - representation of lucasian chair of mathematics which. These combine to form a collectivized body (256) His body is a machine that cannot fix itself.
