On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Individual Somebodies
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 26, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Les Schaffer <schaffer at optonline.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > i guess as a physicist the question caught my attention (I’ve always
> > wondered how "black-body" originated).
> >
> > philosophically, one thread seems to trace back to Frantz Fanon (what
> > came to be referred to as "black-as-body") and Du Bois ("dark body"):
> >
> > Black skin. white masks
> > http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf
> > see:
> > Black Bodies, White Gazes
> >
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=iyoonjqA0Z0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
> >
> >
> http://blogs.umass.edu/afroam391g-shabazz/files/2010/02/George-Yancy-on-the-Return-of-the-Black-Body.pdf
> > http://www.westga.edu/~mmcfar/George%20Yancy.htm
> > Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=r4NwAVpYsdkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
> > A Phenomenology of the Black Body
> >
> >
> http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrarchive/act2080.0032.004/110:12?rgn=main;view=image
> >
> > dark body / Du Bois / The Souls of Black Folk:
> > """After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and
> > Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and
> > gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields
> > him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through
> > the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this
> > double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through
> > the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that
> > looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an
> > American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;
> > two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps
> > it from being torn asunder."""
> > http://www.bartleby.com/114/
> >
> > literature:
> > Scarring the Black Body: Race and representation in African American
> > Literature
> >
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=h8QwGyoyiB4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
> >
> >
> http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/black-body-re-reading-james-baldwins-stranger-village
> >
> > black is beautiful from a"medical anthropology" perspective:
> > Black America, Body Beautiful
> >
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=PyNE-VHTBuYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
> >
> > to Doug's point:
> >
> > """Remember the trip lasted thirty-fave to ninety days, contingent upon
> > weather. Moreover, the decks where Blacks were held were infested with
> > lice, fleas, and rats. Diseased, dead, and dying black bodies were
> > chained together. My point here is that the sheer non-discursive
> > confinement of Black bodies/selves within these tight spaces, filled
> > with the putrid smell of death, sickness, blood, urine, and feces was an
> > exercise in discipline. The "Black body" in relation to the European
> > imaginary was being created and produced, a docile and self-hating body.
> > Whiteness as a site of concentrated power was productive. Foucault
> > maintained that the effects of power are not simply manifested in terms
> > of that which excludes, represses, and censors. Rather, "power
> > produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and
> > rituals of truth. The individual and the knowledge that may be gained of
> > him belong to this production. " """
> > from Black Bodies, White Gazes....
> >
> > Les
> >
> > in physics, the seminal papers of Planck -- who is most associated with
> > black body in physics -- are here
> >
> >
> http://www.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Planck%20%281900%29,%20Improvement%20of%20Wien%27s.pdf
> >
> >
> http://www.ffn.ub.es/luisnavarro/nuevo_maletin/Planck%20%281900%29,%20Distribution%20Law.pdf
> > German versions here:
> > http://www.archive.org/stream/verhandlungende01goog#page/n212/mode/2up
> > http://www.archive.org/stream/verhandlungende01goog#page/n246/mode/2up
> >
> > the phrase "black body" does not appear in (the translation of) Planck's
> > paper, as Planck was working with an idealized statistical mechanics
> > construct, an ensemble of oscillators. Plancks breakthrough hypothesis
> > was to quantize the energy of those oscillators, though the word
> > quantum was apparently in use already:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum
> >
> > earliest uses of black body (Wikipedia):
> > - Balfour Stewart 1858: "Lamp-black, which absorbs all the rays that
> > fall upon it, and therefore possesses the greatest possible absorbing
> > power, will possess also the greatest possible radiating power."
> > - Kirchhoff 1860: schwarzer Korper
> >
> > seeBalfour Stewart and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff: Two Independent
> > Approaches to "Kirchhoff Radiation Law"by Daniel M. Siegel
> > http://www.jstor.org/stable/230562?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
> >
> > On 05/25/2015 02:05 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >>> On May 24, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know the backstory of this odd wording: when and where it
> >>> started, what the point was supposed to be, etc.?
> >> I don't know where and when it started but it seems to be an attempt at
> (a Foucault-inspired?) pseudo-materialism that strikes me as quite
> dehumanizing, though of course habitual users intend otherwise.
> >
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