Roberta Mock
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Professor of Performance at Royal Holloway, London. 🇨🇦 in UK for a long time now. Tikkun olam 🍉. She/her. Posting in personal capacity only.
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Roberta Mock
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· Nov 13
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![Merleau-Ponty. The Contemporary Philosophical Movement.
“[For instance, my] body is not an object: it is the medium of all my relations with the world.
Insofar as I have a body, I am not a pure consciousness, but am engaged in the world through this body with the aid of which I perceive. I do not merely know the world; as Heidegger says, I am in the world. The role of philosophy is to make us rediscover this bond with the world that precedes thought itself.
On another level, you see the consequences: if man is not only a thinking subject but a situated subject, our relations with others cannot, from the beginning, be the relation of a pure thought with a pure thought.
They are dominated by differences of situation; classical liberal politics ap pear abstract. Generally speaking, philosophy rediscovers a "thickness" and a relation with concrete problems it had lost when it became pure reflection on science.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3nbzvaodadyyhke4z25q5elk/bafkreidl4b7d52habfjircavfsi5mmkywbetms56a3t4o74f3cecuh6npi@jpeg)
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![We tried out in New Haven. Now, I was not sure about my own self at that time...So, when I was called out to do the play, part of me was resisting everything, everything. My thought was, I'm going to show everyone why I shouldn't be in this play. When we opened in New Haven, I basically just laid down. I said said “Okay, I'm going to be so bad they're going to get rid of me." So I got terrible reviews. Elizabeth [Ashley] did well. They all loved her and she was great. But, my perversity had everyone down on me. I thought, well, this is good, now they'll replace me. Mike took me to lunch and said, “Look, I think I know what you're doing, and it's not going to work. No matter how bad you try to behave, I'm not going to replace you." So I said, "Well, I'm now going to get worse.” I decides I'm not gonna let him win this one, I'm going to show him. I'm going to be so bad he's gotta replace me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zknk3rjsatent75sdbbopown/bafkreibl7flue4suctt5sytwwrhu45jpk2dpmvvi247l7ql72pftblo6ki@jpeg)
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