ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Media Literacy, Killing Us Softly, Panties

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Test october 26th and questions distributed october 19th. Philosopher and historian interested in the history of modernity. Focus on the production of a particular type of bodies (docile bodies). This implies that bodies are shaped by culture and constructed by cultural forces. They are not natural entities knowing how to be masculine or feminine. We are shaped and molded by disciplinary power which is a bi product of modernity. Techniques used to control and manipulate the body to act in a certain; to become docile which is a normative body. He is interested in looking at certain agents of discipline which operates in various institutions such as hospitals and so on. It does not just take place through these places. Foucault says we tend to naturalize discipline in the sense that we tend to view a lot of these places such as hospitals and prisons as natural; apolitical sorts of entities.

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