CUL121 Lecture 7: Cul-Lec-7

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL121
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

* monsters are important in the way we imagine crime and visual culture. They are all extremes-inhuman, subhuman, inhuman, extra-human-they operate at and beyond the limits of what is acceptable and what is imaginable. * mr baldy takes children who wont behave-dragging them from their house in the middle of the night, taking them away and torturing them. * monstrosity functions as a less noticeable aspect of communication, politics, identity and difference. Cultural studies finds monstrosity attached to (ab) normality and normalisation: through law, biology, discipline, and biopower-drawing on the theories from french philosopher, * foucault is suggesting the monster appears with reference to law: (cid:1684)law(cid:1685) is referring not just to social law, but also to natural law. The monster appears in what foucault calls a juridical biological domain. The figures of half human, half animal being of double individualities of hermaphrodites in turn represented that double violation.