1. located bodies an argument – we find ourselves in connections through articulations of people and things in particular circumstances (location/context matters) – for distributed bodies

2. ten located bodies this will be my particular take on our course bodies in place – presenting ten different kinds of located body it will be by no means an exhaustive list they will not be exclusive categories but will overlap and complement the ten are suggestive rather than definitive

3. located bodies – one the citizen body Socrates in Athens - the classical polis

4. the dialogue – Crito Crito wants to get Socrates out of Athens Socrates answers with an argument about the state and its citizens about the constitution of the state and order and about the constitution of the good life

5. the polis Socrates discusses duty and the obligations of the individual to the collective some terms he uses hoi Athenaioi – the Athenians – fellow politai hoi polloi – the many, the majority, the mob he polis – the state to koinon – the commonwealth hoi nomoi – laws homologia – the (social) contract consider Crito 50a

6. the alternative to his citizen identity Thessaly – dislocation some terms applied to Thessaly metoikein – to live as an alien (no) homologia – no social contract ataxia – disorder (cf kosmos) akolasia – license and incontinence Socrates would be out of place and laughable

7. Athens – hoi Athenaioi Socrates and Plato are discoursing in the city of Athens

8. the urban state a public sphere for an elite citizen body spaces for a leisured class to meet, talk, take decisions a physical setting for an oral and literate culture

9. where democracy happened the ekklesia – the assembly the boule – the council the importance of public speaking, leadership, argument, rhetoric

10. democratic imperialism the Athenian Empire class conflict – old aristocracy, new citizen mobility, citizens and others old patterns of patronage and leadership giving way war – with Sparta, Korinth and Syracuse – and defeat

11. the sophists Socrates was identified with this group of intellectuals and teachers who serviced the desire on the part of the citizen body to learn and practice public discourse some names – Gorgias, Protogoras, Euthydemos developing an intellectual discourse pertinent to these urban and political spaces Plato despised them (seeing Socrates as pursuing not the skill of discourse per se but its object – questions of right and wrong)

12. sophistry and dialectics the importance of peitho – persuasion sometimes caricatured as the skill of arguing any case – whatever the truth or consequences sometimes associated with an aversion to popular will – seen as ignorant and manipulated by the skilled speaker (this sometimes given as the reason for the downfall of Athenian democracy)

13. the sophists part of an intellectual shift to making people the center of thought and debate through some classics oppositions such as nomos and phusis – convention and reality might and right

14. located bodies – one the citizen body where is it located? in such urban, urbane and political spaces riddled with contradiction and tension the spaces and the community constitute each other Athens is the Athenians just as the physical community is the citizen Socrates relates himself to this polis of constituted politai