Thursday, May 25, 2006

Commodity Fetishes: PART II

The body [...] has ruffled the edges of a bloodless rationalist discourse, and is currently en route to becoming the greatest fetish of all.
Terry Eagleton. The Illusions of Postmodernism
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not quite en route though...)

The human body was entering a machinery of power that explores it, breaks it down and rearranges it. [...]discipline produces subjected and practiced bodies, 'docile' bodies.
Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish

In contemporary patriarchal culture, a panoptical male connoiseur resides within the consciousness of most women: they stand perpetually before his gaze and under his judgement. Woman lives her body as seen by another, by an anonymous, patriarchal Other.
Sandra Lee Bartky. Feminism and Foucault

8 comments:

VROXOPOIOS said...

Επιτέλους λίγος Φουκώ! Είχα ανησυχήσει!!:-))
(Πλάκα κάνω, ε;)

Mia Wallace said...

Χαχαχαχαχα!!Κρατήθηκα όμως ε, δεν μπορείς να πεις...!;)

Mia Wallace said...

The fetish for Freud is that which plugs an intolerable gap; and there is a case for claiming that sexuality has now become the most fashionable fetish of all. I think that says it all...

Mia Wallace said...

By the way, it is Terry Eagleton again speaking.

Anonymous said...

I wish to live in world that doesn’t look at my body as a sexual instrument but as an organism with skin, hair and nails. I wish we could all walk naked next to each other and forget our vulnerability. Maybe this would free our minds more than anything else, talked about or tried.
I am still dreaming... but I prefer it that way.
While observing the gaze of a lusty stranger I say to myself: "maman? pourquoi je suis pas un garcon?"

Mia Wallace said...

It is dream within a dream...

Anonymous said...

σχόλιο για το υπερσώμα της δεσποινίδος κανείς?? καλή η θεωρία, δε λέω...

Mia Wallace said...

Χαχαχαχα!! καλά τι σου μαθαίνω τόσο καιρό;))