»

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

“‘POLITICAL ECONOMY’ OF THE BODY”

“[T]he body is… directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.”-I think that this quote means that we push our bodies to its limits and how theres a polticial hold on everyone, somehow. (i dunno :)
“[I]t is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labour power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection… the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body a subjected body.”
-My interpretation of this quote means that your productive you dont have anything to do, and if you have something to do, your being subjected to do it. :D

0 comments: