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Toppinen, Teemu. "Enkrasia for Non-Cognitivists." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20, no. 5 (2017): 943–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9819-9.

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Skipper, Mattias. "Reconciling Enkrasia and Higher-Order Defeat." Erkenntnis 84, no. 6 (2018): 1369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0012-x.

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Rudy‐Hiller, Fernando. "Inverse enkrasia and the real self." Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 9, no. 4 (2020): 228–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tht3.465.

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Lasonen-Aarnio, Maria. "Enkrasia or evidentialism? Learning to love mismatch." Philosophical Studies 177, no. 3 (2018): 597–632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1196-2.

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Klein, Dominik, and Alessandra Marra. "From Oughts to Goals: A Logic for Enkrasia." Studia Logica 108, no. 1 (2019): 85–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11225-019-09854-5.

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Horst, David. "Enkratic Agency." European Journal of Philosophy 25, no. 1 (2016): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12172.

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Coates, Allen. "The Enkratic Requirement." European Journal of Philosophy 21, no. 2 (2011): 320–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00449.x.

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Dorion, Louis-André. "Akrasia et enkrateia dans les Mémorables de Xénophon." Dialogue 42, no. 4 (2003): 645–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300005692.

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AbstractThis article aims to shed light on both the foundations and the consistency of the position regarding akrasia Xenophon attributes to Socrates in the Memorabilia. As does Plato's Socrates, Xenophon's Socrates maintains that akrasia is impossible in the presence of knowledge. On the other hand, he differs from the platonic Socrates by granting to enkrateia, instead of knowledge, the role of foundation for virtue. If enkrateia is the very condition for acquiring knowledge and virtue, consequently the responsibility for countering akrasia falls to enkrateia.
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Machek, David. "Aristotle on Enkratic Ignorance." Journal of the History of Philosophy 58, no. 4 (2020): 655–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hph.2020.0071.

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Lee, Wooram. "Enkratic Rationality Is Instrumental Rationality *." Philosophical Perspectives 34, no. 1 (2020): 164–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12136.

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Field, Claire. "Giving Up the Enkratic Principle." Logos & Episteme 12, no. 1 (2021): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme20211211.

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The Enkratic Principle enjoys something of a protected status as a requirement of rationality. I argue that this status is undeserved, at least in the epistemic domain. Compliance with the principle should not be thought of as a requirement of epistemic rationality, but rather as defeasible indication of epistemic blamelessness. To show this, I present the Puzzle of Inconsistent Requirements, and argue that the best way to solve it is to distinguish two kinds of epistemic evaluation – requirement evaluations and appraisal evaluations. This allows us to solve the puzzle while accommodating traditional motivations for thinking of the Enkratic Principle as a requirement of rationality.
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Sagdahl, Mathias Slåttholm. "Enkratic Reasoning and Incommensurability of Reasons." Journal of Value Inquiry 50, no. 1 (2015): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-015-9489-6.

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Silva, Paul. "Explaining enkratic asymmetries: knowledge-first style." Philosophical Studies 175, no. 11 (2017): 2907–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0987-1.

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Dorion, Louis-Andr�. "Enkrateia et partition de l��me chez Platon." Revue de philosophie ancienne XXXVI, no. 2 (2018): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rpha.362.0153.

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Gould, Carol. "A Puzzle about the Possibility of Aristotelian enkrateia." Phronesis 39, no. 2 (1994): 174–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852894321052171.

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Smith, Margaret DeMaria. "Enkrateia: Plutarch on self-control and the politics of excess." Ploutarchos 1 (2003): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/0258-655x_1_6.

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Bredenkamp, DSM. "1 Korintiërs 9:24-27 – Kerklike leierskap vra ‘n besondere vorm van selfbeheersing." Verbum et Ecclesia 28, no. 1 (2007): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v28i1.95.

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The purpose of this article is to describe Paul’s self-control in 1 Corinthians 9 as an example to contemporary church leaders. After ascertaining the framework of 1 Corinthians 8:1 to 11:1 as following Christ in loving servitude, Paul’s introducing of his apostleship is described as a combination of an example and a defense. He utilizes the agon motif to make his point regarding his own sacrifices. To him self-control enkrateia) has a finite meaning: to relinquish certain liberties and rights for the sake of his mission in Christ, the identity of the church and the perseverance of his fellow believers. Church leaders can take heed of this necessity for restriction of personal liberty in response to the views of others.
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Field, Claire. "IT'S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES: AGAINST THE FIXED POINT THESIS." Episteme 16, no. 2 (2017): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2017.33.

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ABSTRACTCan we make mistakes about what rationality requires? A natural answer is that we can, since it is a platitude that rational belief does not require truth; it is possible for a belief to be rational and mistaken, and this holds for any subject matter at all. However, the platitude causes trouble when applied to rationality itself. The possibility of rational mistakes about what rationality requires generates a puzzle. When combined with two further plausible claims – the enkratic principle, and the claim that rational requirements apply universally – we get the result that rationality generates inconsistent requirements. One popular and attractive solution to the puzzle denies that it is possible to make rational mistakes about what rationality requires. I show why (contra Titelbaum (2015b), and Littlejohn (2015)) this solution is doomed to fail.
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Wudel, B. Diane. "The Seduction of Self-Control: Hermas and the Problem of Desire." Religion and Theology 11, no. 1 (2004): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430104x00023.

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AbstractIn both narrative passages and ethical precepts, the early Christian text The Shepherd of Hermas places great emphasis on the virtue of enkrateia, self-control or self-restraint. At the same time, surprisingly erotic elements appear, beginning with an opening scene in which Hermas observes a woman of beauty and character emerging from her bath. Epithumia, desire, is immediately problematized. Though the text?s continuing interplay between motifs of desire and self-restraint at times seems clumsy, one can argue that it is nevertheless coherent and linked to the text?s depiction of masculinity. In the end, The Shepherd of Hermas seems to narrate the key task in Christian self-formation not as the suppression or repression of desire, but as the exercise of techniques of self scrutiny that lead to the seductions of self-control, the luxuriousness of virtue, the manly surrender to holy desire.
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Haddad, Alice Bitencourt. "Sobre o Bem nas Memoráveis de Xenofonte." Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77, no. 1 (2021): 205–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2021_77_1_0205.

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This article analyzes the concept of good through an overview of Xenophon’s Memorabilia. It begins with the dialogue between Socrates and Aristippus (3.8), in which the philosopher links the good with utility, indicating the recurrence of this conception in the dialogue with Euthydemus (4.6). It shows how the conception of good as useful is expanded to the divine realm, identifying the passages in which the gods appear as benefactors of humanity. Then, it deals, in contrast, with the human difficulty of accessing good, either by not recognizing it, or by the need for preliminary practice of virtue, understood as enkrateia, i.e., restraint of pleasures. In this context, the relevance of self-knowledge as the knowledge of one’s own power (δύναμις) stands out. Finally, the article highlights the figure of Socrates as a benefactor, describing the way Xenophon portrays him as a guide and a paradigm for those who wanted to learn from him.
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Tymura, Dorota. "The Value of Opheleia in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus." Kultura i Wartości, no. 30 (March 31, 2021): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2020.30.69-84.

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<p>Celem artykułu jest ukazanie Sokratejskiej <em>opheleia</em> jako istotnej wartości etycznej w życiu człowieka - na podstawie tekstu <em>Ekonomika</em>. Można sądzić, że opheleia była jednym z najczęściej przez Sokratesa używanych pojęć etycznych, a jego szczególna pozycja została uwypuklona w tekście<em> Ekonomika</em>. W dialogu Ksenofonta Sokrates traktuje pożytek jako wartość, która stanowi podstawę prawdziwej przyjaźni, dobrych relacji rodzinnych, w tym szczególnie małżeńskich, właściwych stosunków zawodowych, a więc wszystkich najważniejszych relacji międzyludzkich. Jest on równie ukazany jako prawdziwa wartość duchowa kształtująca zachowanie moralne człowieka zarówno względem samego siebie, jak i innych ludzi, zajmując tym samym czołowe miejsce w etyce Sokratejskiej. Jako taka wartość musi on być jednak oparty na wiedzy i właściwym moralnym postępowaniu, w szczególności w zgodzie z nakazami <em>enkrateia</em>. Dlatego można twierdzić, że <em>opheleia</em>, utożsamiana również z dobrem i pięknem, jest ściśle powiązana z najważniejszymi pojęciami filozofii Sokratesa, takimi jak wiedza, cnota, przyjaźń i moralne wychowanie, i odgrywa w jego rozważaniach bardzo istotną rolę.</p>
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Lozano Nembrot, Milena. "Los pliegues de la subjetividad: individuo y responsabilidad moral en la Grecia Antigua." Nuevo Itinerario, no. 14 (April 1, 2019): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/nvt.0143711.

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<p>La moral griega clásica ha sido objeto de diversas interpretaciones por parte de especialistas y filósofos. Por un lado, encontramos una línea exegética, de tradición alemana, que observa en la moral griega desde Homero a la época helenística un progresivo desarrollo, en donde se formarían por primera vez ciertas nociones básicas de la ética occidental. Por otro lado, a partir de los años setenta del siglo pasado se han hecho varias críticas a este tipo de posición, haciendo hincapié en las continuidades tanto dentro de los siglos de la Grecia Antigua como con respecto a la actualidad. El objetivo del presente artículo es, en primer lugar, trazar un mapa de estas dos líneas fundamentales en los estudios específicos sobre esta temática. De esta forma, la parte más extensa de este trabajo consistirá en un recorrido por los textos de los principales referentes de estas líneas de pensamiento, para observar sus similitudes y diferencias, y rastrear sus fundamentos filosóficos. En segundo lugar, propondremos brevemente un punto de partida concreto para analizar la ética griega y sus posibles cambios: la aparición y desarrollo del concepto de enkrateia o “dominio de sí”, término que aparece recién en los testimonios del siglo IV a. C., pero que, como veremos, se origina en el ambiente intelectual del siglo V a.C. Por último, consideraremos este tema desde la lectura de Foucault, y la interpretación deleuziana de esta, la cual coloca como clave para comprender la ética antigua el concepto de gobierno de sí. De esta manera, a partir de lo visto en el segundo apartado, a la luz de la filosofía foucaultiana, propondremos un modo de acercamiento a la ética griega que permita apreciar los cambios dentro de esta, sin suponer una visión evolucionista de la historia de la moral.</p>
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Hall, Stuart G. "Enkrateia e antropologia. Le motivazioni protologiche della continenza e della verginità nel cristianesimo dei primi secoli e nello gnosticismo. By Giulia Sfameni Gasparro. (Studia Ephemeridis ‘Augustinianum’ 20.) Pp. 405. Rome: Institutum Patristicum ‘Augustinianum’, 1984." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 38, no. 1 (1987): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046900022727.

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Fierro, María Angélica. "Amores locos. A propósito de la mania erótica en el Fedro." Nuevo Itinerario, no. 14 (March 6, 2019): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/nvt.0143713.

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<p>En el presente trabajo intentaré mostrar que en el Fedro la mania, en tanto estado alterado de conciencia, representa para Platón desde un síntoma de un máximo desequilibrio psíquico y una corrupción ético-cognitiva hasta un estado mental privilegiado, propio de la locura profética, catártica, poética y, particularmente, de la erótica. En tal sentido mostraré que:</p><p>En el Primer Discurso de Sócrates (238b-c) la definición de erōs como “apetito connatural por los placeres” e irracional vs. la “opinión adquirida orientada a lo mejor” (equiparada aquí a la sōphrosynē como perfección de la enkrateia), ya sugerida a través de la descripción del amante en el Discurso lisíaco (230e-234c), </p><p>presenta la locura erótica como reñida con la razón, en concordancia con la visión del sentido común.<br />El Segundo Discurso de Sócrates (243e-257c) constituye una instancia superadora a esta alternativa al proponer que: a) tanto en la locura amorosa ordinaria como en la de origen divino existe una exacerbación del apetito (epithymia) sexual en el amante ante la belleza física del amado que causa una percepción y modo de actuar que se aparta de los parámetros normales; b) no obstante, ambas se diferencian en que, mientras en el caso del erōs “izquierdo” (266a) este queda reducido a su expresión apetitiva y se desarrolla sin freno, en el del erōs “derecho” (266a) precisamente la renuncia a la satisfacción sexual no solo impulsa sino que exacerba el amor a la sabiduría, tanto en el amante como en el amado y estimula así en la parte racional del alma el deseo de captación de la belleza en sí. iii.</p><p>Finalmente me referiré a cómo en el contexto del mito se presentan tres formas de anamnēsis vinculadas de distinto modo con la locura erótica. Por una parte, el verdadero amante enloquecido de amor por el joven, rememora, gracias a la belleza en él presente y de un modo más o menos consciente, una captación directa y extra-discursiva de un ámbito divino y trascendente. Esta modalidad de la razón sería, no obstante, estimulante a la vez que complementaria –no meramente anticipatoria– a los ineludibles esfuerzos del trabajo dialéctico-argumentativo y reflexivo de la razón, descripta en el mito como reconstrucción rememorativa del entramado eidético. A ello se agrega un tercer tipo de anamnēsis consistente en recordar el tipo de configuración psíquica divina correspondiente a nuestra alma a través de la contemplación de la estructura isomórfica del alma del amado; en el caso de los amantes filósofos, se trataría de un alma “tipo Zeus”, que representa el ideal de una cómoda conducción de los aspectos irracionales al estar sustentada en un satisfactorio cumplimiento de los anhelos de la razón.</p>
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Way, Jonathan. "A puzzle about enkratic reasoning." Philosophical Studies, October 15, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01575-z.

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Abstract Enkratic reasoning—reasoning from believing that you ought to do something to an intention to do that thing—seems good. But there is a puzzle about how it could be. Good reasoning preserves correctness, other things equal. But enkratic reasoning does not preserve correctness. This is because what you ought to do depends on your epistemic position, but what it is correct to intend does not. In this paper, I motivate these claims and thus show that there is a puzzle. I then argue that the best solution is to deny that correctness is always independent of your epistemic position. As I explain, a notable upshot is that a central epistemic norm directs us to believe, not simply what is true, but what we are in a position to know.
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Illarraga, Rodrigo. "WHAT THE RULERS WANT: XENOPHON ON CYRUS’ PSYCHOLOGY." Classical Quarterly, April 21, 2021, 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838821000240.

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Abstract This article presents an interpretation of Cyrus’ psychology in Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Its point is that Cyrus’ psychological structure is composed by a set of three desires (philotimía, philanthrōpía, philomátheia) given by nature and a set of virtues (sōphrosúnē and enkráteia) acquired by education. The paper will argue that Cyrus, as an enkratic ruler, does not long for any kind of honours, but is guided by true philotimía, that is, the desire for true honours—honours freely given by gratitude or admiration. philanthrōpía is the key to achieve these honours, since it naturally prompts a benevolent and generous behaviour. At the same time, philomátheia provides the desire of knowledge necessary to acquire the techniques in order to accomplish ambitious and philanthropic deeds. Therefore, confronting those who have posed negative interpretations of Cyrus, the article will argue that the uncommon combination of these psychological predispositions makes Cyrus a virtuous and effective ruler.
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De Wet, Chris L. "‘No small counsel about self-control’: Enkrateia and the virtuous body as missional performance in 2 Clement." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 69, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v69i1.1340.

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The question this article addresses is how the encratic, virtuous body in 2 Clement ‘speaks itself’ as a missional performance. It is in essence concerned with the discourses of corporeal virtuosity in 2 Clement. Firstly, the agon motif (2 Clem 7:1−6; 20:1−4) is discussed since it forms the basis metaphor for the understanding of ancient virtue-formation. Secondly, 2 Clement’s encratic technologies of soul and flesh as an extension and overamplification, respectively, of the body are examined (2 Clem 9:1−11). In the third instance, the proliferation of visible technologies of the body in 2 Clement are brought into perspective with special emphasis on these technologies as strategies of andromorphism, a crucial element in the understanding of virtue in antiquity (2 Clem 12:1−6). Fourthly, 2 Clement also links concepts of holiness and the pneumatic dimension of spirituality in its argumentation (2 Clem 14:1−5). This needs to be understood in the light of corporeal virtuosity. Finally, the concepts of suffering (2 Clem 19:3−4), martyrdom (2 Clem 5:1−7) and the apocalyptic anti-spectacle (2 Clem 17:1−7) are central in 2 Clement’s formulations of the missional performance and are therefore clarified. The intersection of these discourses is where the virtuous body in 2 Clement speaks itself as a missional performance. The study concludes by looking at the implications of the findings for understanding early Christian missionality.
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Smith, Sean Aylward. "Ya Bloody Cappie!" M/C Journal 2, no. 4 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1759.

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i'm going shopping -- but i'm not telling you where! What does one do when one opens the pages of one's favourite style bible -- in this case, the British magazine The Face -- and finds one's aesthetic choices stereotyped remorselessly? This unfortunate scenario confronted a humble graduate student a few months ago when I opened the March 1999 issue to find an article titled, appropriately, "Shopping". Written by one of The Face's staff journalists -- identified only by the initials 'JS' -- and subtitled "The yuppie's not dead. He's just changed his shoes", the article made a comparison between current aesthetic practices I am only too consciously aware of and that dreaded and reviled icon of the eighties, the yuppie. What I did -- once I recovered from the melodrama of being aesthetically outed in an international style magazine, that is -- was to think about the politics of aesthetics. In particular, about the connection between popular aesthetic practices and emergent class formations. of porterage bags and obscure label sneakers "In the Eighties everyone wanted to be a yuppie -- young, successful, status-driven, consumerist" begins the fateful article, "living the high life with a low regard for anything that wasn't flash, fancy or requiring gold credit". It wasn't enough to simply have money, you had to demonstrate it too. But the turn of the decade brought an end to this malignant species -- or so at least The Face says, and who am I to disagree with them? But in the dying days of the current decade, The Face believes it has identified a new breed of consumer -- the "consumer of alternative pricey products" or more succinctly, the cappie. Unlike the yuppie, for whom -- discursively, at least -- no act of consumption could be too conspicuous, the cappie is very particular about their consumer practices. If it's not obscure, if it's not hard to get, it doesn't rate. The cappie is fussy about their choices, about their consumer satisfaction. They don't know compromise: they want it, they can buy it -- and, if it's the right thing, at any price. Examples of consumer goods which attract the eye of the cappie include -- and it was here that I started to get worried -- obscure label trainers, rare Japanese denim (didn't you ever wonder what the story behind G-Star was?), the Massive Attack box collection and porterage bags. As someone who has scanned the streets of Brisbane to make sure not too many people have porterage bags like my own and who won't buy trainers unless they have a very high scarcity value, I felt unwillingly but undeniably interpellated by this article. Particularly when it concluded by saying "make no mistake -- [the cappie] is no less a consumer than the yuppie was". Ouch. However, it seems to me that The Face, as is so often the case, only got it half right. Not that I'm not a consumer (that would be special pleading!): after all, as a citizen of a client state of the United States, the economic function of which is to absorb the overproduction capacity of our host nation, I could hardly be anything else. No, it is the particular origin of the aesthetic of consumption practised/performed by cappies like me that The Face got wrong, and there is both textual and anecdotal evidence to support this claim. Textually, there is a significant difference between the aesthetic of consumption of the yuppie and that of the cappie as they are presented by The Face. The yuppie aesthetic was based, The Face argues, on the public display of a "common currency of success": "the wide-wheeled flash car, the wide-shouldered Italian suit, the celebrity restaurant" -- the conspicuous consumption of a set register of signifiers that denoted the exercise and possession of economic capital. In contrast, the cappie aesthetic as defined by The Face eschews the display of economic capital in favour of a fluctuating and eclectic register of signifiers -- the preferred labels are obscure and niche, their recognition unnecessary: "if you haven't heard of it, so much the better. ... He knows it's right, he doesn't need you to know" [italics and gender-exclusive pronouns in original]. Anecdotally, the consumption patterns practiced by myself and others who share a similar sense of aesthetics have been honed through years spent scouring op-shops for good scores. The trainers I like are not merely rare, they're also extraordinarily cheap. The football jersey I spent months searching for had to satisfy two important criteria on top of looking good: it had to be obscure, and it had to be a bargain. Now, to be sure, I was searching for the football jersey in the UK, which for an Australian is not a cheap holiday destination, and the trainers I prefer are cheap by my standards but not necessarily in an absolute sense, so I'm not trying to argue that the cappie -- assuming I am a suitable example of one -- is without economic capital. However, what I am arguing is that this aesthetic practice does not privilege the mere possession of economic capital, except as it enables the performance of the preferred stylistic register: that the determinant of last instance of the cappie aesthetic is not the ability to buy the appropriate significatory register but the knowledge of what it constitutes and how to read it. If there is the public display of distinction taking place in this aesthetic -- and I would suggest that, like all aesthetics, there clearly is -- it is not economic capital that is being conspicuously consumed, but cultural capital: i.e., knowledge. If the origin of the aesthetic of consumption identified by The Face as 'cappie' is the possession of cultural capital rather than economic capital, then it is both significantly different from the aesthetic of conspicuous consumption metonymically represented in the figure of the yuppie and considerably more interesting. The ubiquity of the yuppie subject in the Eighties can be read, as a number of scholars including Jane Feuer and Fredric Jameson have argued, as a representation of the embourgeoisment -- either practically or spectrally -- of the professional-managerial class as it grew in importance to the functioning of the US economy and its satellite nations. Jane Feuer, the American scholar of television and soap opera argues, for example, that 'yuppiedom' as it was manifest in the USA in the 1980s was ideologically and aesthetically elitist (Feuer 14), and combined "fiscal conservatism and relatively liberal social values" (44). Feuer equates the class identity of the young, urban, highly-remunerated and ambitious professional with the more general and more ambivalent 'professional-managerial class' of educated and managerial workers who nevertheless didn't own the means of production. "In a sense", says Feuer, only somewhat facetiously, "during the 1980s Marxist academics were yuppies who couldn't afford BMWs" (46). Feuer supports this assertion by arguing that during this period, the 'yuppie audience', as she designates the demographic segment who positively responded to their interpellation, and the professional-managerial class shared similar aesthetic and lifestyle values -- that is, they shared the same discriminators of taste and distinction, in the Bourdieuan sense. As a result, the rise of this new consuming subject, the cappie, which eschews the aesthetic codes of conspicuous consumption in favour of an aesthetic based on the possession and performance of accumulated knowledge, of cultural capital, suggests that it represents the aspirations and affectations of a significant class fraction outside existing class structures -- outside, because its aesthetic codes are based not upon economic capital, the determinant of last resort of class location within capitalist economies, but of embodied knowledge: of cultural capital. However, this is not to suggest that the cappie aesthetic is better or more democratic than an aesthetic based upon the conspicuous consumption of economic capital. There is enough scholarship that contributes to "the alliance between cultural studies, liberal multiculturalism and transnational capitalism", as the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton caustically puts it, without me contributing to this sorry corpus as well. For although the cappie does not depend upon economic capital for its ultima ratio, it is still, as an aesthetic practice, a regime of discrimination. As such, there are a number of possible future trajectories available to the cappie aesthetic, the selection of which will define retrospectively what it always was. Firstly, it is possible that the cappie is the latest in a long series of subordinate aesthetic practices -- that is, subcultures -- that exist below the dominant aesthetic practice of conspicuous economic consumption and which value forms of capital de-valued by the hegemonic aesthetic. In this way the cappie might take its place next to the beat poet, the mod, the punk and the raver, as an iconic representation of a (predominantly youth) subculture that defines itself against and in relation to the dominant aesthetic practice. It is also possible that the cappie might follow the same trajectory that the yuppie did. As Feuer argues, the yuppie began as an aesthetic practice that valued cultural capital at least as much as economic capital, but which, through its interpellation as the 'yuppie audience' of a significant fraction of the recently economically enfranchised professional-managerial class became, briefly, the hegemonic aesthetic practice in the US in the 1980s. There is also a third possibility, however, that I am most interested in: that the emergent cappie aesthetic, independent of but not unresponsive to existing aesthetic practices, is the subjective manifestation of ongoing changes in the mode of production in advanced capitalist economies from an industrial base to an informational one. There isn't the space here to argue the existence of this transformation, and so I shall instead direct the reader to the magisterial 3 volume work by the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells, The Informational Age: Economy, Society and Culture. However, given the reality, in whatever form, of this gradual transformation from an industrial mode of production to one that is primarily informational, then it follows that the simultaneous product of and precondition for this transformation has been the ongoing commodification of knowledge, or more precisely, the "integration of knowledge into commodity production" (Frow 91). As a result of this transformation, the expertise and credentials possessed as cultural capital by the emerging knowledge class become more generally and reliably convertable into economic capital: cultural capital becomes a means of production. What the emergence of the cappie aesthetic is doing then is marking the coming to power of this particular class fraction through the conspicuous display of artefacts that signify not money but skill: knowledge. Furthermore, the cappie aesthetic signifies this emerging power of a knowledge class not qua economic enfranchisment, as the yuppie did, but on its own terms, through the reification of the form of capital -- cultural capital -- that is peculiar to itself. The cappie thus brings together the three forms of cultural capital, as the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has defined them, in the body of the 'cappie subject': institutionalised, in the form of educational qualifications, the certification of which is done by the university system through which this article is being circulated; objectified, in the cultural products of the cappie; and embodied "in the form of long-lasting dispositions of the mind and body" -- that is, as aesthetics (243). In particular, it is this embodiment, through aesthetics, of cultural capital that interests me about The Face's construction of the cappie. For this embodiment of certified knowledge and expertise manifest through its performance of deliberately obscure and shifting aesthetic registers implies a particular awareness of the self, one that is very similar to what Michel Foucault, in a somewhat different context, has called enkrateia. In The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure, Foucault defines enkrateia as a combative relation of the self to the self, "a domination of the self by oneself and ... the effort that this demands" (65). Distinguishing enkrateia (translated into English as 'continent') from 'moderation' (sophrosyne), Foucault argues that the 'continent' self "experiences pleasures that are not in accord with reason, but [is] no longer ... carried away by them" (66). For Foucault, enkrateia is one of the "technologies of the self", those techniques which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves. (Technologies of the Self, 18) That is, the subjective constitution of knowledge of the self as self-mastery is what gives the subject the ability -- and for Foucault, following classical Greek philosophers, the right -- to govern others. In this sense then -- and without wishing to diminish my own awkward interpellation by this aesthetic mode -- as a description of the popular consumption practice named by The Face as 'the cappie', (although I might wish to expand that acronym simply as 'the consumer of alternative products'), this notion of enkrateia -- power over others gained through knowledge of and power over the self -- pointedly locates the emerging class privilege and power enabled through and by this particular aesthetic practice. In a society in which the dominant form of capital is increasingly becoming information, and in which capital is increasingly regarded as information, the conspicuous display of exclusive forms of knowledge by the cappie aesthetic is not so much a reaction against capitalist consumption aesthetics as a recognition and performance of the rising social power and influence of the class fraction interpellated and addressed by this aesthetic practice. If aesthetic practices are distillations and embodiments of class aspirations and expectations -- and I hope I've argued that they are -- and if the aesthetic practice signified by The Face's 'cappie' is in fact markedly different from the practice of conspicuous consumption that came to be reviled, rightly, as 'yuppie' -- in as much as 'the cappie' disregards ostentatious displays of economic capital in favour of no less arrogant displays of embodied cultural capital -- then the cappie is the marker of the emergence of a new class formation. And although mapping the precise topography of this class fraction will consume the entirety of my doctorate, and even then not exhaustively, I can say that the 'knowledge class', identification of which is based upon possession of a necessary quantity of cultural capital -- that is, of education, aesthetic modes and inscribed competencies --, is both the result and engine of an emergent mode of production that is bringing about a transformation of apparatus of contemporary capitalism. And that this isn't necessarily a good thing. References Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Forms of Capital." Handbook for the Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. Ed. John G. Richardson. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 241-58. Castells, Manuel. The Informational Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Vol 1-3. Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishers, 1996-8. Eagleton, Terry. "In the Gaudy Supermarket." London Review of Books Online 21.10 (1999). 10 June 1999 <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n10/eagl2110.htm>. "Shopping." The Face Mar. 1997: 24. Feuer, Jane. Seeing through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. Foucault, Michel. The Care of the Self. The History of Sexuality vol. 3. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Frow, John. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995. Martin, Luther H., Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton, eds. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988. Citation reference for this article MLA style: Sean Aylward Smith. "Ya Bloody Cappie!." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2.4 (1999). [your date of access] <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9906/cappie.php>. Chicago style: Sean Aylward Smith, "Ya Bloody Cappie!," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2, no. 4 (1999), <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9906/cappie.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: Sean Aylward Smith. (1999) Ya bloody cappie!. 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