Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Acker
The purpose of Acker's form/style of Against Ordinary Language: The language of the Body is represented in the text material. Her whole essay is about body building but more specifically the repetition and counting aspect of body building. During and between each work out and rep there is counting involved, with the simple action of inhaling and exhaling on each count. This creates a very structured and routine regiment, also making a very structured and simplified mindset. This is logically represented in her writings with a structured breakdown of the whole work out process, and the her idea that the "language" of body building cannot be easily translated into text because of how different the language is.
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I agree that the language of the body is not easily translated into text. I had difficulty following her short descriptions, but not because she is a bad writer, but because what she was describing was very difficult to do so.
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