scholarly journals Formasi Diskursus dan Subjektivitas dalam Novel The Water Knife Karya Paolo Bacigalupi : Kajian Arkeo-Genealogi Foucault

ATAVISME ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Budi Tri Santosa
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Strategy Formation ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Intensive Control

This research is conducted to elaborate discursive formations, formation and surveillance of discursive subject, and the subject’s struggle towards the discourse in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife. Data that is successfully collected are analyzed using Foucault’s archeo-genealogy method in two steps: archeology reading and genealogy reading. The result shows that there four formations forming a discourse, namely object, enunciative, conceptual, and strategy formation. Then, there are also four mechanisms of discursive formation, which are centering individual from society, training of control the activity of the body, testing individual’s body in the certain degree, and creating subject as body-machine of discourse. The mechanism of surveillance is done through three ways, they are hierarchial control, norm forming, and examination as intensive control. The effect of the dominant discourse is the rebellion against the discourse. There are two rebellion ways in the novel, namely parrhesia as the discourse discontinuity and the care of the self as means against the discourse.

scholarly journals La complejidad del cuidado del cuerpo en ambientes obesogénicos / The Complexity of Pampering Obesogenic Environments

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Carlos Rios Llamas
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Obesogenic Environment ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Obesogenic Environments

ABSTRACTFoucault conceived the human being as defined by biopower forces. After that, the industrial society treated the body as an element of the production process, and the care of the self was derived to healthcare institutions. Recently, Paula Sibilia studied the industrial human being from the capitalism on his transformation through technology and digital hybrids. She thinks that the human body could be at the end in the form we know it. But in the perspectives of both Foucault and Sibilia, the body projects could be at their own obsolescence because they leave a key element aside: the obesogenic environment which is implicit into the current modern technological society. This abstract pretends to visualize how body projects and modernity are interconnected and confronted, from their assumptions and fundamentals, against obesity. RESUMENDe acuerdo con Faucault el cuerpo humano es modelado a partir de dispositivos que corresponden con las formas de poder y con las funciones que se le asignan en una sociedad y en una situación espaciotemporal específica. En esta lógica, el cuidado del cuerpo frente a la obesidad como amenaza, se habría de estudiar desde el entorno social y su evolución en las últimas décadas. Así, mientras que a mediados del siglo XX, las sociedades industriales definieron el cuerpo por su utilidad en los procesos de producción, y el cuidado de uno mismo se derivó a las instituciones como garantes del bienestar, en las últimas décadas las hibridaciones tecnológicas y digitales amenazan el cuerpo biológico y cultural en la forma que lo conocemos. Algunos autores indican que esta forma de cuerpo podría llegar a su fin ante la imbricación de nuevos aditamentos como prótesis, dopaje y alteraciones quirúrgicas. En una lectura desde el margen de los avances en el campo tecnocientífico y biopolítico, todos los proyectos de corporeidad encontrarían hoy su propia obsolescencia ante la obesidad que se instituye como pandemia y que amenaza al cuerpo desde la cultura, la medicina, la economía, la política y los estudios ambientales. Es oportuno, entonces, develar los vínculos entre el cuidado del cuerpo y la contemporaneidad, y desde la obesidad como amenaza de los supuestos avances tecnocientíficos. Por eso, en la conceptualización de “ambientes obesogénicos” se abre una posibilidad para analizar el proyecto contemporáneo de cuerpo desde los espacios donde se construye y se modela su cuidado, y a partir de sus formas de resistencia ante los cambios tecnocientíficos.

Written on the Body: Ekphrasis, Perception and Deception in Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Ramus ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Whitmarsh
Keyword(s):  
Solid Material ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Skin Colour ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Space ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
The Moment

Novels have so much solid and monolithic bulk when they sit in a hand or on a shelf; inside, the pages are forests of symbols, as though even in books of such magnitude the sentences needed compression to fit on to pages. How different to poetic volumes, beguilingly slender, their pages brilliant with blank, white space, across which the spindly words stretch like gossamer. In terms of content, however, novels are rarely as monolithic as their physical form suggests. From earliest times since, the genre has dealt, centrally, with themes of metamorphosis, transubstantiation, the fundamentally permeable nature of the self. The solid material aspect of the novel often masks a central preoccupation with the fluidity of identity.In the compass of this article, I want to explore the central role accorded by Heliodorus, arguably the greatest of ancient novelists, to questions of perceptual deception, to seeing and seeming; and in particular, I want to explore the role of artworks within Heliodorus' narrative economy. The narrative turns, as is well known, on the amazing paradox of an Ethiopian girl born white. Charicleia's skin colour is a visual trap, an illusion. Given that her freakish pigmentation is the result of her mother's glancing at an art-work at the moment of conception, Charicleia can almost be said to be a walking ekphrasis, an embodiment of the illusory traps of the unreal.

scholarly journals The Unruly, the Mut(ilat)ed, the Ailing: Corporeality as a Space of Subversion in J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies ◽  
Kamel Abdaoui
Keyword(s):  
Active Site ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
Waiting For The Barbarians

This paper addresses corporeality as a space of subversion to hegemonic discourses in J. M. Coetzee’s fiction. The body is not only elusive to representation but it is also entrusted with a certain degree of authority that allows it to contravene the systems of normalization imposed by dominant discourse. The paper tends to appropriate poststructuralism and postcolonialism as its main theoretical grid to argue that corporeality in Coetzee’s novels is deployed as a fluid construct that offers a space of interaction between subjectivities beyond the rigid contours of discursive representation. In Dusklands, the clear-cut demarcations erect between the Self and the Other often blur and disintegrate while facing the permeability and extensiveness of the body. In Waiting for the Barbarians and Foe, however, the mutilated and silenced body of the Other is presented as a space of resistance to the Empire’s attempts to inscribe its statement of powerviolently. It is only the diseased body of Mrs. Curren, in Age of Iron, which transforms into an intersubjective space of reciprocity between Self and Other that is capable of overcoming the fixed barriers between subjects. Being an active site of contestation between subjectivities, the textual construction of corporeality in Coetzee's aforementioned novels offers creative opportunities of becoming and grants an imaginative understanding of otherness outside the limits of the logic of binarism encapsulated in colonial and imperialist discourses.

scholarly journals A Foucauldian Reading: Power in Awakening by Kate Chopin

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
Narges Raoufzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh ◽  
Shiva Zaheri Birgani
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
The Self ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This paper traces Foucault’s notion of power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The writers bring into the light, different aspects of a woman’s position in the society of late nineteenth-century America. Paper looks at private and social conditions of women, using Foucault’s ideology of power, and discuss the reactions of Chopin’s protagonist in relation to her actions towards the workings of power in her life. With a close analysis of the novel based on Foucault’s ideology of power, researchers discuss the workings of power in the protagonist’s married and social life, including her efforts to set herself free from this power and her process of resistance analyzed according to Foucault’s theory. The research comes to the conclusion that the impossibility of acting outside power, the possibility of resisting power from within and Foucault’s “Care of the self” as the only way to traverse the power-defined failed of possible actions. Paper shows that, Chopin’s protagonist does not resist patriarchy based on Foucault’s methods and her actions towards power do not lead to any effective ending.

JASPER PACKLEMERTON, VICTORIAN FREAK

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Kelly Hager
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Novel ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Our Mutual Friend ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Mutual Friend

ONE OF THEOED'S DEFINITIONSof the word “freak” is that of a freak of nature, “a monstrosity, an abnormally developed individual of any species; a living curiosity exhibited in a show.” The freak of nature I wish to focus on in this essay is marriage, and specifically, marriage as it is “exhibited” in Dickens's novelThe Old Curiosity Shop(1840–41). To refer to marriage in a Victorian novel as a freak of nature is perhaps surprising. To refer to the sacred institution as freakish in a Dickens novel may seem to border on heresy. After all, Dickens is the self-appointed novelist of hearth and home, the creator of conservative domestic plots that celebrate marriage as the institution that establishes closure for the novel and for the society it represents. Despite this apparent conservatism and despite our vague sense that most marriages in Dickens are as happy as David and Agnes's, Esther and Allen Woodcourt's, Biddy and Joe's, it is in fact the case that in all his novels, fromThe Pickwick PaperstoOur Mutual Friend, Dickens is fascinated–in a multiplicity of ways both large and small, in a manner that is alternately comic, tragic, melodramatic, ironic–with marriage's discontents. In fact, the disintegration of the institution is one of the things that Dickens makes fictions from, giving the failure of marriage a surprisingly high degree of visibility and presenting the breaking of the matrimonial bond with remarkable clarity and persistence. Dickens novels are full of wives who leave their husbands (Edith Dombey, Lady Dedlock, Louisa Gradgrind), breach of promise suits (inPickwickandOur Mutual Friendmost famously) and characters who try to find legal ways of escaping their marriages (Stephen Blackpool, Betsey Trotwood,Nickleby's Madame Mantalini). This essay, then, is an analysis of how Dickens undermines the institution early in his career, and of how the comic and grotesque display of the body, the sprawling, teeming physical surfaces ofThe Old Curiosity Shop, both conceal and reveal a story of marital skepticism.

scholarly journals QUEM GANHA QUANDO EU DURMO BEM?: a retórica procedimental como modo de midiatização dos cuidados de si na Fitbit Charge 2

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-148
Author(s):  
Elias Cunha Bitencourt
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Procedural Rhetoric ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Fitness ◽  
Fitness Tracker

O advento da digitalização e da softwarização das ferramentas comunicacionais sinaliza para mudanças na ontologia da mídia, modificando os modos como esses meios veiculam informação e estabelecem interações entre usuários e instituições. O artigo problematiza essas mudanças ontológicas, sinalizando para um possível modo de midiatização dos processos de gestão do corpo e da saúde que opera por meio de mecanismos de persuasão presentes no caráter procedimental da mídia digital. Analisou-se as interfaces do dispositivo de monitoramento pessoal – o Fitbit Charge 2 – para ilustrar alguns processos de midiatização do cuidado de si operados por meio da retórica procedimental.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Dispositivos vestíveis; Fitbit; Retórica Procedimental; Saúde Digital; Novas Mídias.     ABSTRACT The digitalization and softwarization of everyday life points to substantial changes in the ontology of the media that modifies the ways in which it shares information and establish interaction between users and institutions. Thereby, this paper discusses these ontological transformations in computational media, suggesting that there is a procedural rhetoric acting as new media mode of mediatization of the body and of the care of the self. To illustrate this, we analyze the Fitbit Charge 2 personal fitness tracker interfaces to highlight the mediatization of the care of the self trough procedural rhetoric processes.   KEYWORDS: Wearable devices; Fitbit; Procedural Rhetoric; Digital Health; New Media.     RESUMEN La digitalización y de la softwarización de las herramientas comunicacionales señala para cambios en la ontología de los medios, modificando los modos como esos medios transmiten información y establecen interacciones entre usuarios e instituciones. El artículo problematiza estos cambios ontológicos, señalando para un posible modo de mediatización de los procesos de gestión del cuerpo y de la salud que opera por medio de mecanismos de persuasión presentes en el carácter procedimental de los medios digitales. Se analizaron las interfaces del monitor de vestir - el Fitbit Charge 2 - para ilustrar algunos procesos de mediatización del cuidado de sí operados por medio de la retórica procedimental.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Monitores de vestir; Fitbit; Retórica Procedimental; Salud Digital; Nuevos Medios.

Sensing Bodies: Negotiating the Body and Identity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-108
Author(s):  
Kylee-Anne Hingston
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sensation Fiction ◽  
The Moonstone ◽  
Corporeal Body ◽  
Physical Instability

This chapter illustrates how mid-Victorian sensation fiction responds to anxieties exacerbated by nascent Victorian psychology’s attempt to map the self on the corporeal body. Examining the form and focalization of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd (1862–63) and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (1868), this chapter argues that bodies in sensation fiction function both as spectacle, exhibitions of physical instability, and as specimens, case studies on the source of identity. In Aurora Floyd, focalization through an authoritative external perspective provides ‘correct’ interpretations of bodies which have previously been misinterpreted by physiognomy, phrenology, and lineage. In particular, the narrator uses external focalization on disabled villains to manifest how identity appears in bodies and to place eugenic value on those with healthy bodies. By contrast, The Moonstone, lacking authoritative external focalization due to its multiple first-person narrators, uses plot to reveal misinterpretations of disabled bodies, in particular that of Rosanna Spearman. In addition, internally focalized interactions between normate narrators and disabled characters in the novel often cause the narrators to recognize the instability of their own identities and bodies, and thus of normalcy. However, the novel’s overall narrative structure works to control deviance through linearity, which imposes normalcy as a stable, final result.

scholarly journals Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s Syndrome in “Infinite Jest”

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Ana Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Infinite Jest ◽  
External Stimuli

This article attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions and sensations arousing from the body for the reviving of the self in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of choices and the external stimuli from entertainment has established a tradition of ennui and addiction as part of the hedonistic search for pleasure. This is particularly important for the understanding of the effects it may have on the mapping of the self and on agency which can consequently be framed among mental disorders. Taking a neuroscientific approach, Wallace’s characters is discussed as having a possible connection to Cotard’s syndrome. This delusion helps to reveal how a lack of emotions disables correct self-awareness giving way to the belief that one may be dead or non-existent.

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