Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will

Evidence

The theory then assumes that phenomena are structured paradigmatically and that certain ideas, material structures, “ideological” positions, and institutions stand in them as paradigms or in relation to paradigms. Authors, like all participants in paradigms and domains, stand, or are made to stand, in a particular relationship to them, for paradigms are possible only through common will, or a driving force that may substitute for such will. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 67 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the correct use of the body, which makes possible a correct use of time, nothing must remain idle or useless: everything must be called upon to form the support of the act required. A well-disciplined body forms the operational context of the slightest gesture. Good handwriting, for example, presupposes a gymnastics – a whole routine whose rigorous code invests the body in its entirety, from the points of the feet to the tip of the index finger. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233 (#expands, via linked claim)

The difference between these two views turns upon contrastive understandings of the relationship between bodily behavior and the pious self: for Amna, performative behavior may signify a pious self but does not necessarily form it. For the women I worked with, bodily acts (like weeping in prayer), when performed repeatedly, both in public and private, endowed the self with certain qualities: bodily behavior was therefore not so much a sign of interiority as it was a means of acquiring its potentiality. I use the term “potentiality” here in its Aristotelian meaning, in which it does not suggest a generic faculty or power, but is linked to the abilities one acquires through specifi kinds of training and knowledge. This usage of “potentiality” implies that in order to be good at something one undergoes a teleological program of volitional training that presupposes an exemplary path to knowledge-knowledge that one comes to acquire through assiduous schooling and practice. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1022 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1022; A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233; Paradigms are sustained by common will or by a force standing in for it. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 67 (+3 more)

Related

• Even upright posture is a willed habit continually sustained by unconscious willing (similarity 0.87)
• Paradigms are sustained by common will or by a force standing in for it. (similarity 0.83)
• The body is deliberately cultivated toward habits that bypass conscious choice (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Paradigms are sustained by common will or by a force standing in for it. #corroborates (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 67
• A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233
• Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it #corroborates (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1022
• Habit reconciles will and world until one wants what is #expands (0.72)