Professor Lee Quinby – Spring 2013

Posts Tagged: Bio-Power


Posts Tagged ‘Bio-Power’

Lolita Part 1

Defining the sexuality of children has long been a part of civilized society. Foucault’s idea of the strategy “pedagogization of children’s sexuality” is that it is founded on the belief that children are highly sexually beings, that need to be constantly monitored an controlled or they will explore and use their bodies in unacceptable ways. […]

Sanguine to Sex: Blood and Bio-power

“A society of blood… where power spoke through blood; the honor of war, the fear of famine, the triumph of death, the sovereign with his sword, executioners and tortures; blood was a reality with a symbolic function. We, on the other hand, are in a society of sex…the mechanisms of power are addressed to the […]