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Klaus Theweleit on the cultural imaginary of German fascism
the Freikorps after WW1
bodies in a machine age

building coherence
fighting fragmentation

establishing identity

in war and action

(reading Vol 2)
the eyes and posture
the speech
threats (to identity) –

explosion

the tide of history - fluidity

women and the masses
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(reading Vol 1)
three kinds of women

absent

the ‘white nurse’

‘red women’
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marriage - to sisters of comrades (at home)
not just fascism …
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pharmakon?

recognizing the threat?
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located bodies – two

the traveling body
Trobriand islanders and the Kula ring

Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific
a symbolic or general economy of exchange
a system of cultural transactions through goods, travel, encounter, adventure
– the extended body (associates, ability, knowledge, goods)
cultural construction

and the contest for success and prestige
the Odyssey as a series of transactions, balances, negotiations defining society and the cultural milieu of the hero, as well as personal identity

through journey, encounter, nostos
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