Gestern die Performance My Body is the Field for Tomorrow’s Battles gesehen.

Aktuelle Fitness-Bewegungen kombinieren unterschiedlichste Körperpraktiken, um nicht weniger als folgendes Ziel zu erreichen: Auf alles vorbereitet zu sein. Welche Zukunftsvisionen, Ideologien und Rollenbilder verstecken sich hinter diesem Anspruch? Eine Armee durchtrainierter Frauen, die bereit sind, ihre Körper einzusetzen, aber nicht genau wissen wofür, wird auf der Bühne um die Antwort auf diese Fragen kämpfen.

Zufällig gleichzeitig diesen Text über den Befehl zum Genießen in der Postmoderne gelesen. Dort wird Zygmunt Baumanns Konzept von Fitness erwähnt.

Bauman describes fitness as being even more oppressive than health when it comes to social standards for compliance, as Žižek describes the maternal superego as being even more oppressive than the paternal superego. This is because fitness is problematic in three ways: there is no upper limit to fitness (thus its status as an ever-receding horizon), fitness can be neither objectively measured nor effectively communicated, and finally the subject assumes the individual responsibility for playing both the role of he who experiences sensations and he who measures sensations, paradoxically requiring that the subject experience sensation from both a subjective position and from the objective position of an external observer. Given this state of affairs, Bauman provides a grim prognosis: “Added to the two previously signaled troubles, that additional worry makes the plight of the fitness-seeker an agony of which our health-conscious ancestors had no inkling. All three troubles daily generate a great deal of anxiety; what is more, however, that anxiety – the specifically postmodern affliction – is unlikely ever to be cured and stopped.” Here, Bauman explicitly links anxiety to fitness and postmodern technologies of seduction; anxiety is the result of the postmodern subject’s inevitable inability to live up to the hedonistic social demands for enjoyment. The postmodern subject continuously suffers from the “fear that some precious kinds of sensation have been missed and the pleasure-giving potential of the body has not been squeezed to the last drop.”