POL SCI 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Biopower, Sexual Repression, Bourgeoisie
16 Mar 2017
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03/16/2017 (1) discourse (2) history of sexuality (in the west): conventional story (3) challenging the story of sexual repression (4) bringing sexuality into discourse while proclaiming it secretive (5) proliferating sexualities and sexualizing everything. Works by establishing norms (without always needing laws or police to enforce those laws) Discourse can work imagestically and through speech. Practices (knowledge/ speech) that carry values and meanings. Discourse constitute, position, interpret and represent us all at once in various discourses. Ex. legal discourse: constitute what is law, brings us into being as legal subjects (criminal, plaintiff, defendant etc. ) Ex. medical discourse: functions of human body, brings into being doctor, patient, doctor-patient relationship, also makes the relationships it creates. ** in every field, make what is invented seem natural. Pay attention: not name it, produces what is real (not that nothing is real) Discourse operate by positing norms and deviations. Deviations secure in the norm in the first place queerness/heterosexuality, blackness/whiteness.
