Greg Ulmer cites Wlad Godzich's Afterword to Paul de Man's _The Resistance to Theory_ to claim that theory is the ur-form of (expert) tourism:
' "The Greeks designated certain individuals to act as legates on certain formal occasions in other city states or in matters of considerable political importance. These individuals bore the title of theoros and collectively constituted a theoria. They were summoned on special occasions to attest the occurrence of some event, to witness its happenstance, and to then verbally certify its having taken place" (Godzich). Others could see and make claims, but these would have merely the status of "perceptions"; only the report of the theoria provided certainty, certifying the attested event such that it could be treated as fact. "What it certified as having been seen could become the object of public discourse."
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/glue/Rewired/ulmer.html
Cameron
On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:56 AM, CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS) wrote:
> thea harao means the goddess gazing back at us, whist we gaze back at the gods. for him it appears that theorizing is likened to the gazing back of the gods, partly the gods autonomous initiation, and not shall we say contingent or dependent on our gazing.
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