HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fokker E.Ii, Roman Magistrate
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From the book the body in pain: three simultaneous phenomena in the structure of torture a. i. A theory about the social and political function of torture a. ii. Part of a longer book that considers pain in various realms of society at different points in history. Moves discussion of pain outside of medical realm and into social considerations, including its role in war a. iii. Conflates private and public (and here we might think back to the public official) c. iii. Obliterates consciousness annihilation of thought ad emotion c. iv. Ability to destroy language: the tendency of pain not simply to resist expression but to destroy the capacity for speech is in torture reenacted in overt, exaggerated form. : objectification d. i. Instruments of torture (pain and power: power e. i. e. ii. Questions: being tortured through sexuality removes pain from the body something that can be objectified.
