Original scientific paper

Body and Text: Genealogy of Dividing Practices

Dušan Ristić orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-6686 ; University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia
Dušan Marinković ; University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Serbia

Abstract

In this paper we are identifying transformations from individualization and localization of practices over a specific corporeality to collective political practices over the body-population. In this way we take a genealogical approach to the problem of the erosion of paleosymbolism and the occurrence of discursivity of the body through the discontinuity of the body and text. In the processes of the general social deritualization – primarily of public communication, which signifies the rationalization of the Western society, at the end of the 18th century, occurred new forms of utterances: medical, psychiatric, legal, pedagogical, psychological, which were grouped into text/knowledge/power. With reference to Foucault’s analytics of power, we analyse deritualization of the practices of uttering that occurred in parallel with the changes within the practices of punishment and that includes the new technology and mechanisms of power over the human bodies. In the paper we conclude that the same matrices of texts and practices that were earlier constructed for concrete, individual bodies will be applied to the new body – society.

Keywords

body; text; discourse; genealogy; practices; paleosymbolism

Hrčak ID:

158780

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158780

Publication date:

2.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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