Saturday, October 24, 2015

Docile Bodies Session 4; 10/22/15



10/22/2015: Critical Genealogies Meeting Notes
Questions:
1. What constitutes the convergence of a multiplicity of minor processes? p. 138

2. How does Foucault’s methodology interrupt the genetic time of disciplinary power? P. 160

3. p. 139 “Discipline is a political anatomy of detail.” – IS there a connection btw F’s method and
the affective disposition which he brings to it? Reciprocity

4. p. 160 Disciplinary methods: dynamism, specific chunks of time established; how much consistency and how much dynamism?

5. p. 152 “time penetrates the body and with it all the meticulous controls of power” – How does this relate to previous regime, is this a new form of how torture operated on the body in the old regime?

6. p. 156 Can we understand disciplinary power as a link that illuminates nature and the natural imaginary -à biopower à cellular analytic, how is nature being mobilized? NATURE

7. p. 169 parenthetical – Making a link between military and rise of bourgeoisie? Or not.

8. Composition -à at two levels,  bodies /// and forces

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With regard to question 8, use of the word machine……
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Distribution ----
Composition of forces ---- meta-, second order, relation between parts and wholes

What would produce a necessity to reconfigure the machine?
162. economic demand, need for maximum efficiency.

How would a specific economic need …. Enter into the machine.

Mutate the machine, vs what makes it run.

What would make it mutate? ---- and what is the relationship btw the spatial disciplining and the temporal?

The organic as a component of the ‘machine’  or mechanization –

Organic/mechanization relationship, is one a limit on the other?…..
What is his sense of ‘Organic’? p. 167
Is ‘organic’ the same as ‘natural body’? – reciprocity of bodies – p. 164

Mechanical/machinic -à the natural bodies

Concepts/ vs. analytical categories à ‘power’ would be an analytical category

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