PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unconsciousness, Peer Pressure, Joanna Bourke
16 Sep 2016
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Dead to the world: rape, unconsciousness, and social media . Mysterious/ immediate apprehension of density/ totality > distance collapses/ cease to perceive self as separate from objectivity. X directed experience > extreme state of vulnerability: sleep: St of distinction of defenceless for all humans. Req. us to trust in the surrounding world as we sleep: phenomenology: 1st person perspective, attempt to bracket the subjective particulars > nd essential shared qualities: rape: (cahill: the imposition of a sexually penetrating act on an unwilling person, agency of victim = eclipsed by rapist, r v. j. a. De nes rape = sexual activity req. ongoing active consent -> unconsciousness precludes this. Big ideas: youth rape culture + role of social media. Evidence = medium for pornographic violence against victim/ survivor: main focus: Victims = sexually assaulted while unconscious/ or semiconscious: victim blaming. Nec. obstacle to productivity: absence to agency, block to continuous exercise, women experience bodies > different sexualized gaze/ realized.
