these were the notes i took while reading my section
section 4
The Scriptural economy aka the Living Word
What belongs to the people?
The People’s Voice
Recorded voice
No pure voice; social, cultural, like a musical instrument played by a musical hand
Theories, ideas
Robinson Crusoe: the modern myth of the everyday man
According to J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero, but an everyman. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand; he ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the Promised Land. The book tells the story of how Robinson gets closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read. Jonah tries to avoid God's command by going to Joppa and sailing to Tar shish. A huge storm arises and the sailors, realizing this is no ordinary storm, cast lots and learn that Jonah is to blame. Jonah admits this and states that if he is thrown overboard the storm will cease. The sailors try to get the ship to the shore but in failing feel forced to throw him overboard, at which point the sea calms. Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a large fish. In chapter two, while in the great fish, Jonah prays to God and asks forgiveness. As a result, God commands the fish to vomit Jonah out. Like Jonah, Crusoe neglects his 'duty' and is punished at sea.
The Bible considered Holy Scriptures speaks to the reader the sacred text is considered the voice of God. Who expects the reader aka the listener to have a desire to hear and understand?
Truth no longer depends on the attention of a reciever who assimilates himself to the great identifying message.
Does this make sense?
Like if I was to say do you watch “Heroes”? If you said yes we could talk about who our favorite Character is. Like mine is Hiro. And we could talk about if Peter Patrelli and Syler go into a fight who would win?
Or how do you tell some one they are a sinner with out offending them?
Family guy. We could talk about how the people who do the voices. Or why is there an evil monkey in Chris’s room. Or do the people in the show hear baby Stewie when he talks? Or is it just the dog? But the people can hear the dog speak and this is no big deal so why doesn’t the dog speak of the baby? And tell them what he is thinking will they not
believe him?
Logos of society becoming flesh
Coca cola Pepsi
Disney Disney communities all Disney products and food everything Disney white paint
Comedy of Errors
“If skin were parchment and the blows were ink” in other words these words and media are pounded into us and written across our chest like a scarlet letter and across backs literally
The Written law as scriptural economy the tools of the penal justice that work on the body were a flint knife for scarification to a needle for tattooing. Now are Billy club and handcuffs to a box reserved for the accused in a courtroom. These tools are used in various ways to up hold one idea of justice and justification for wrong doings.
It is common knowledge and understood that there is a definite relationship between rules and bodies
Machinery language bigger oiled stronger faster higher lighter longer lasting becoming more sleek and less costing more refined ( for the Body)
Medical Language that we live by cutting bleeding purging medicating healing surgery dieing this medical machine become less violent thru the ages (for the Body)
Writing and the body including Christian reformation and including fiction starts as written word then ingested into a body, tools used to make a body conform to its definition of a social discourse the is popular to the movement
Propaganda, persuasive writing, fairytales, myths, gospel, fiction
The machinery of representation
How we listen and receive
Logos and products act as an identity card …such as glasses cigarettes shoes …..Reshape a physical portrait
Celibate machines
Sex as a machine…why didn’t they go into this more sex as a communication is a big factor I would think. Pornography on the internet telling us how sex should be or how long and all that good stuff of who is in control were women should be and how we should act or what kinds of fantasy situations lead to sex…. The pizza guy fantasy
He does talk about fantasy though and a detachment from reality
Ch 11
Quotations of voices
Displaced enunciation …act of speaking or speech-act
John Goodman in O brother where art thou
Fast talking multi topic to persuade
Science of fables
Sounds of the Body
Voices of the body
Words of our fathers
Remembering what your parents, coaches, teachers, friends, relatives
One can maintain a tradition of the body, which is heard but not seen
Body is obscene
ChXII
Reading as Poaching
Some time ago
Once a pone a time
Ideology of informing through books
Image of the public
What producers claim to inform
Assuming the act of consumption
And assuming the assimilating means becoming similar to
Ideology was sought to spread Enlightenment
A misunderstood activity: reading
Reading is only one aspect of consumption
