HUM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biopolitics
4 Mar 2016
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Hum 321 the humanities of critical thinking. Docile bodies : body as machine, mechanics of life. 17thc/18thc control of power over subjects is no longer based on take life/let live but changes to disallow life/let live. Power is no longer exercised upon brute law enforcement, variations in punishment. Power in modern & contemporary period is exercised in life itself. Regulatory power life itself: what we can do with our body. Power is no longer dark cloud armies, etc. Modern age: we should strive to equality. Power belongs to the structure itself, not to an individual network. Docile passive, not active, inscribed by power itself; what to do, how to act. 17thc: hospitals, prisons, schools created: mechanization of life, of the body. Mad house: take power from individual: creates categories of citizens. Body as machine: attention given to every aspect of the body. Mechanics of body: attention to how the body regenerates itself.
