{"id":10558,"date":"2026-06-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10558"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:51:01","slug":"semiotics-and-history-online-course-concerning-baroque-scholasticism-and-early-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10558","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Eric Santner\u2019s Book (2016)\u00a0The Weight of All Flesh\u00a0(Part 1 of 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0001 The following 2017 essay comments on a recent book by a Professor of Literature about the subject matter of the political economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eric Santner tries to figure out its immaterial measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do I say&nbsp;<em>immaterial measure?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the complete title:&nbsp;<em>The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject Matter of Political Economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight is a measure of something material.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, weight itself is not material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, matter ought to be material.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, subject matter is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the economy processes materials.&nbsp;&nbsp;Politics does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will literalism do under these circumstances?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the flesh has weight, then it is no longer simply&nbsp;<em>what it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once matter is taken to be a subject, then it is no longer merely&nbsp;<em>what it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the economy is taken to be political, then it is no longer only&nbsp;<em>what it is<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0002 To me, the category-based nested form applies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>actualities of flesh, matter and economics<\/em>&nbsp;exist by themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, humans evolved to consider more than&nbsp;<em>what is at hand<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are designed to put actuality into a nested form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, these actualities exist, for us, in&nbsp;<em>the normal contexts of weight, subject and politics<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are not the only normal contexts.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are the contexts raised by the author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contextualization of actuality raises another question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What potentiates&nbsp;<em>the weight of flesh<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>subject matter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>political economy?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may already know the answer.&nbsp;&nbsp;I do not.&nbsp;&nbsp;Consequently, I turn to this text to see&nbsp;<em>what I may discover<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This will be a fairly close reading, so have Santner\u2019s book at hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Words that belong together\u2019 are denoted by single quotes or&nbsp;<em>italics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0003 Eric Santner wrote&nbsp;<em>The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy&nbsp;<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2016).&nbsp;&nbsp;The main body of the book consists in a preface and two lectures.&nbsp;&nbsp;The two lectures constitute chapters 1 and 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;These chapters are broken into parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santner\u2019s presentations are works of art, composing the 2014&nbsp;<em>Tanner Lectures on Human Values<\/em>&nbsp;at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0004 The front piece is an introduction by Kevis Goodman.&nbsp;&nbsp;The end piece is a suite of comments by Bonnie Honig, Peter E. Gordon and Hent de Vries, followed by a reply by Eric Santner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The responses are very challenging.&nbsp;&nbsp;How does one reply to&nbsp;<em>something that sounds like free association?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately,&nbsp;<em>the front and end pieces<\/em>&nbsp;will not be covered in these comments.&nbsp;&nbsp;However,&nbsp;<em>the end piece<\/em>&nbsp;may be used as&nbsp;<em>an exercise in the methodology that composes these comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0005 Why is this interesting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interest is obvious once one looks at&nbsp;<em>How To Define the Word \u201cReligion\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;plus the first ten associated primers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tenth primer ends before&nbsp;<em>the majesty of sovereign power<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Primers 8, 9 and 10 tell of&nbsp;<em>the difficulty of seeing beyond these mountains<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyone who argues about politics can stir up&nbsp;<em>an avalanche<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does Primer 8 tell me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infrasovereign religions grasp for sovereign power in order to impose their organizational objectives on those outside their organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about Primer 9?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Socrates had to drink hemlock.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why did he have to do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primer 10?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rene Girard proposes that a scapegoat mechanism is apparent in all civilizations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, the mechanism comes into play when power structures try to preserve themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall,&nbsp;<em>politics and religion<\/em>&nbsp;map&nbsp;<em>a dangerous landscape<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eric Santner walks where angels fear to tread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0006 Primers 8, 9 and 10 explore&nbsp;<em>the presence underlying the word \u201creligion\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institutions occupy&nbsp;<em>the content level of the society tier.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;They contextualize the organization tier.&nbsp;&nbsp;These institutions harbor organizational objects, objects<sup>organization<\/sup>, that call the individual into organization.&nbsp;&nbsp;These objects<sup>org<\/sup>&nbsp;are virtually situated by sovereign acts, laws and decrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0007 Eric Santner reads literature.&nbsp;&nbsp;He observes art.&nbsp;&nbsp;He sees that&nbsp;<em>something<\/em>&nbsp;changed in the West over the past few centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this&nbsp;<em>something<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is completely missed by the current social and political sciences.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, it appears in Western paintings, poems, novels, plays, and other artistic works.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the stuff that Eric Santner studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0008 Subject matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;What is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMatter\u201d is stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cSubject\u201d is&nbsp;<em>something that ends up objectified<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, now what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does&nbsp;<em>subject matter<\/em>&nbsp;signal&nbsp;<em>the objectification of matter?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or does&nbsp;<em>subject matter<\/em>&nbsp;signify&nbsp;<em>the objectification of something that matters?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0009 At&nbsp;<em>the end of the Latin Age<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the beginning of the Age of Ideas,<\/em>&nbsp;around the 1600s AD,&nbsp;<em>the subject matter of political theology<\/em>&nbsp;was the king\u2019s two bodies.&nbsp;&nbsp;One body was mortal.&nbsp;&nbsp;The other was sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The object of the king\u2019s glorious body<\/em>&nbsp;supplemented&nbsp;<em>the subject of the king\u2019s mortal body<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Santner labels the process&nbsp;<em>spectral&nbsp;<\/em>(glorious body)&nbsp;<em>materiality<\/em>&nbsp;(mortal body).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0010 To me, the glorious body is&nbsp;<em>the normal context for the actuality of the king\u2019s mortal body<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nested form looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sublime body<sub>3<\/sub>( mortal body<sub>2<\/sub>( potential of kingly being<sub>1<\/sub>))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0011 Does this express the character of the subject matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mortal body is matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;The sublime body is&nbsp;<em>the normal context that objectifies the mortal body<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thus, the king\u2019s mortal body becomes a subject for political theology.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The something that underlies the mortal body, giving its flesh weight,<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the quality of being king<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0012 Moving to the present day, the matter of political theory falls to the people, rather than the king.&nbsp;&nbsp;The subject gets dispersed from one king to many citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;The glorious body translates into&nbsp;<em>what Michel Foucault calls \u201cdiscipline\u201d<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The qualities that weight the mortal body of the king<\/em>&nbsp;turn into \u201cbiopower\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, modern political theory translates into the following nested form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discipline<sub>3<\/sub>( citizen<sub>2<\/sub>( possibilities inherent in biopower<sub>1<\/sub>))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0013 The two nested forms are shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide01.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide01-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Normal context<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;and possibility<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;surcharge actuality<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0014 The mortal body of the king is more than it otherwise would be in any other context.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its actuality possesses&nbsp;<em>a surplus of immanence<\/em>&nbsp;because it now has potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, one citizen may heroically rise above others as an expression of the biopower released by discipline.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other citizens are weighed and measured in the exercise of biopower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0015&nbsp;<em>The pressure cooker of the royal person<\/em>&nbsp;expanded to&nbsp;<em>the business of the citizen<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Medieval and early modern political theology<\/em>&nbsp;gave way to&nbsp;<em>modern political economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0016 Take a look at a painting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Jacques Louis David<\/em>&nbsp;painted the extraordinary&nbsp;<em>Death of Marat<\/em>, during the French Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare this image to&nbsp;<em>a wax effigy of a dead medieval king<\/em>, or some other memorial, placed on the throne during official mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0017 Jean-Paul Marat, the citizen, dies in his tub.&nbsp;&nbsp;David paints the death scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The king\u2019s mortal body is buried.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>An icon of his sublime body<\/em>&nbsp;is placed on the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, David paints the equivalent to the sublime body of the citizen, Marat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0018 One could say that this represents a loss of enchantment.&nbsp;&nbsp;After all, Marat, the revolutionary, hardly behaved royally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lack of royalty aligns with the emptiness above Marat, the corpse.&nbsp;&nbsp;The upper half of David\u2019s painting is empty.&nbsp;&nbsp;If Marat had been royalty, the upper register would be full of angels and saints welcoming the glorious king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened to the angels and saints?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0019 Heck, not even Marat\u2019s fellow citizens are in the upper frame, registering the emotions of shock, grief, and, perhaps, relief.&nbsp;&nbsp;Critics have called&nbsp;<em>the nondescript space above the dead Marat<\/em>&nbsp;oppressive, abstract and unmotivated, characteristic of a representational deadlock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0020 Perhaps, the cunning and ambitious artist was saying, \u201cDo not let this be you.\u201d, while painting, \u201cThis fellow was a citizen hero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santner does not tell why Marat got knifed in his enclosed bathtub, filled with medicinal waters.&nbsp;&nbsp;Marat was a radical agitator.&nbsp;&nbsp;He named his newspaper, \u201cThe People\u2019s Friend\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was murdered by a woman who had come to him, claiming news from one of the districts of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her trial, she testified that she killed one man in order to save one hundred thousand.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was found guilty.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her head was chopped off with a guillotine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0021 Jacques-Louis David was charged with organizing Marat\u2019s funeral.&nbsp;&nbsp;Surely, Marat was a martyr for the Revolution.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, despite the acclamation, no other figure appears in the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0022 Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason is simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No sane person (whether angel, saint or fellow citizen) wanted to be associated with this crazy person, who was typical of the Jacobins, the party that celebrated the&nbsp;<em>Cult of Reason<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Cult of the Supreme Being<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0023 David\u2019s painting is both a warning and a paean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0024 To Santner, the empty upper register of the painting associates to&nbsp;<em>the impossibility of transcendence in the modern age<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Business is busy-ness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0001 The following 2017 essay comments on a recent book by a Professor of Literature about the subject matter of the political economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eric Santner tries to figure out its immaterial measure. 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