CGS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Repression, Social Contract, Supreme Court Of India
11 Jul 2018
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Cgs 105 lecture 3 michel foucault"s the history of sexuality, continued. Land-owning white men: relationship between rights and property, rights develop to protect property. Idea that the possessive individual owns themselves: mind controls the body, which is unpredictable, property, and then rights. Social contract: my rights end where your rights begin, disti(cid:374)guishi(cid:374)g self fro(cid:373) the (cid:858)other(cid:859) Sexuality becomes a critical site of surveillance: pri(cid:448)ate, do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)ated (cid:858)fa(cid:373)il(cid:455)(cid:859) (cid:272)a(cid:373)e to (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted as the (cid:374)atio(cid:374)-state on a micro scale, father as the king. Is power only evident in repression: establishment of institutions that manage behavior like science. Fou(cid:272)ault(cid:859)s ai(cid:373) is to defi(cid:374)e the regi(cid:373)e of (cid:862)po(cid:449)er-knowledge-pleasure(cid:863) that sustai(cid:374)s the dis(cid:272)ourse of human sexuality in the western, capitalist world. Why do we talk so damned much about sex: polymorphous techniques of power reveal the will to knowledge about sex, many forms through which production of truth is produced.
