Rob Boddice: ‘The Other Body in Pain’

Wednesday 10th October, 2012

1pm, Arts 2

This paper, by Rob Boddice (Freie Universitaet Berlin), explores late nineteenth-century physiologists’ reflections on emotional conditioning as preparation for the aesthetics of the opened body. It also deals with the change in those preparations wrought by the knowledge and application of anaesthetics. This is aiming towards an understanding of how the sight of suffering –the aesthetics of pain – was mitigated, justified, rationalised, and subjected to emotional control.