Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link

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Académie Montmor, 64 Accademia del Cimento, 64, 65 Accademia degli Incogniti, 44 Accademia degli Intronati, 44 Accademia dei Lincei, 7, 45, 65–66, 182n; sexual politics of, 48–49 Adorno, Theodor, 175n alchemy, 42, 178n, 179n, 196n–197n Alliez, Eric, 20, 165n–166n Ambrose, of Milan, Saint, 23 amor Socraticus, 43, 45 Anderson, Benedict, 27. See also mechanical time apathy: and seventeenth-century science. See Boyle, Robert; Kant, Immanuel; Sade, Marquis de Aretino, Pietro, 44, 173n–174n Aristotle: and sensual/conceptual relation , 41–43. See also physics Aristotle’s Master-piece: 17th-century sex manual, 172n–173n Arsic;, Branka, 163n asceticism, 3, 14, 15, 23, 33, 56, 60–61, 65, 68, 155. See also Jesuits Ashworth, William B., 64, 65, 186n aske\sis, 2, 21, 42, 66 Augustine, Saint, 23, 42, 67 Bacon, Francis, 34, 172n, 173n–174n, 178n–179n Ballard, J.G., 31. See also speed; technophilia Barkan, Leonard, 45 Barthes, Roland, 73–74, 155, 180n Basil, Saint, 23 Baudrillard, Jean, 35, 54 Bede, Saint, the Venerable: author of De temporibus and De temporum ratione, 26. See also time Benedict, Saint, 23 Benedictines: and bodily discipline, 25 Benjamin, Walter, 20, 27. See also mechanical time Bersani, Leo, 55 Biagioli, Mario, 4, 48, 65–66 biophilia, 30 Bloch, Iwan, 27–28. Bloor, David. 33 body-instrument link, 13–14, 15, 77, 82–83, 87, 93, 113, 150, 158, 192n. See also Foucault, Michel; pendulum ; prism Bono, James, 34 Book of the Courtier, 46. See also Castiglione, Baldassare Borsellino, Nino, 44 Boswell, John, 66 Boyle, Robert, 8, 172n; and air pump, 174n; and “apathy,” 34, 36–37, 38; and “the gentleman,” 33–34, 36, 174n; and “Hook,” 11; and scientific experimentation , 196n; and, 174n; and “virtual witnessing,” 11, 50. See also experiment ; seventeenth-century science 199 I n d e x Brown, Peter, 22 Butler, Judith, 3, 156, 162n. See also “erotic improvisation” Calvinism, 28, 62 canonical hours, 25, 167n. See also mechanical time Cassian: discussion of chastity, 187n–188n Castiglione, Baldassare, 46, 174n catalogue, Nasco Science ’96: ordering pendulum components from, 129. See also pendulum Catholic Church, 30, 45, 60–61, 66, 182n La Cazzaria, 44–45. See also Vignali, Antonio Cesi, Federico, 48, 49. See also Accademia dei Lincei Cistercians: and bodily discipline, 25 Clavius, Christopher: Jesuit astronomer, 184n clock, pendular, 14; as instrument of self-regulation, 19–20; invention of, 19, 70; public reverence for, 26. See also Huygens, Christiaan; mechanical time; pendulum; personal watch; pornography clock, Roman water, 164n Cluniac order: and bodily discipline, 25 Collegio Romano, 184n, 185n contingency. See pendulum, operationalization of Copernicanism, 38, 60, 61, 62, 186n Council of Trent, 60 Counter-Reformation, 60–61, 66 Crash: novel by J.G. Ballard, 31 Ctesebius, 164n Dall’Orto, Giovanni, 43 Daston, Lorraine, 33 Dasypodius, 26, 28. See also mechanical time; clock, pendular “dead eye,” 5, 46, 49, 158, 159, 163n. See also Arsic, Branka; Descartes, Rene Dear, Peter, 15, 33, 46, 59, 60, 63–64, 169n, 189n–190n; and Discipline and Experience, 185n, 186n Deleuze, Gilles, 19, 55, 180n–181n Descartes, Rene, 5–8, 68, 76, 154, 158, 170n, 183n, 190n; letter to Vatier, 6; theory of perception of, 5. See also Arsic, Branka; “dead eye” desexualization, 8, 9, 10, 19, 21, 23, 60, 63, 173n, 180n–181n dildo, 55, 171n. See also sex, instrumentation of Diotima, 41 Dollimore, Jonathan, 56 Donaldson, Arnold, 9 Donohue, John W., 183n–184n, 189n Drake, Stillman, 126, 130, 164n Dreyfus, Hubert L., 192n Dubarle, Dominique, 46 Durkheim, Emile, 150 Eglin, Trent, 197n elementary machine: invented by Jesuits, 183n Elias, Norbert, 20–21 Enlightenment, 2, 37, 38, 68 Eros, 41–42, 43, 153 erotic improvisation, 3, 10, 81. See also Butler, Judith ethnomethodology, 11–13, 15, 82, 131, 192n. See also Garfinkel, Harold; Livingston, Eric experiment: 39, 40, 63, 150, 185n; and “objectivity,” 48; and virtual witnessing , 46 Feldhay, Rivka, 61 Feyerabend, Paul, 173n Ficinio, Marsilio: translator of Plato, 43 Findlen, Paula, 35, 44, 45, 174n Fiorenza, Elizabeth Schussler, 68–69 flagellation, 28, 59, 188n, 189n Foucault, Michel: 13, 20, 25, 37, 49, 50, 81; on Aristotle, 42; on bodies and pleasure, 157n; and “body-instrument link,” 15, 82–86, 192n; on celibacy, 200 INDEX 187n; on creative force, 2–3; on “desire,” 8–9; on discipline, 191n; on discursive formations, 192n; and fisting , 171n (See Rubin, Gayle); on “pedagogy of practices,“ 86; on rules and perversion, 56–57; on Sade, 52; on sex and Christianity, 64...