DTS300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nominalism
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What numbers prompt us to do about our bodies? (making up people thru numbers) Steps become a unit of comparison and measurement. Dynamic nominalism: you create yourself its not created. A kind of person comes into being at the same time as the kind itself is being invented . Census doesn"t care about individual body cars about social body. Two vector = community of experts create a reality some people call their own(above = metaphor for expertise) When you don"t even associate yourself with something you can still be assessed from it. Expansion of obesity to low income parts of the world. Obesity is a thing in india = but general concern is malnutrition. Obese = bmi equal to or greater than 30 social body/individual body = scale the population.