scholarly journals The Screen of the Migrant Body: Technologies of Abjection and the “So-Called” Rape of Amarinthos

2013 ◽  
Vol 140 (140) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Papailias
Keyword(s):  
Body Technologies

<p>Το άρθρο αυτό εξετάζει μια σημαδιακή στιγμή στη βίαιη μιντιακή έκθεση του σώματος της μετανάστριας στη σύγχρονη ελληνική κοινωνία: το βιντεο-βιασμό μιας κοπέλας βουλγαρικής καταγωγής από συμμαθητές και συμμαθήτριές της στην Αμάρυνθο της Εύβοιας. Αυτό το περιστατικό διαδικτυακού εκφοβισμού ανέδειξε πως η σύγχρονη άσκηση έμφυλης και εθνοτικής βίας βασίζεται σε τεχνολογικές πρακτικές οπτικής στόχευσης, επιτήρησης, θεαματοποίησης και ηδονοβλεψίας από κυρίαρχους πολίτες. Μετά από αρχικά έντονη μιντιακή κάλυψη, η «αλήθεια» του βιασμού σταδιακά αμφισβητήθηκε. Ως διαδικασία εκτοπισμού, ο βιασμός μετέτρεψε μια μετανάστρια γειτόνισσα, συμμαθήτρια, ακόμα και φιλενάδα σ’ έναν απεχθή Άλλο, σε απο-κείμενο (abject), του οποίου η αδιάρρηκτη συνάφεια προς τον εαυτό, ωστόσο, επιβεβαιώνεται μέσα από αυτές τις επαναλαμβανόμενες πράξεις απάρνησης.</p>

Somatechnologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Lettow ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Body Technologies

Until now, the body has played only a minor role in the philosophy of technology. However, more elaborate reflections on the relation between technology and the body are needed because of the advent of somatechnologies – technologies intentionally geared toward modifying bodies and that use bodily substances as technological means. The article discusses some approaches within the philosophy of technology that prove to be fruitful in this context. The article argues thatsomatechnical modifications of bodies should be understood as elements of ‘body technologies’ and body politics in a broader sense. In such a perspective, concepts of the body developed by Judith Butler and Michel Foucault should be adopted by a praxeological philosophy of technology.

Negotiating Gender: Bodybuilding and the Natural/Unnatural Continuum

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Wesely
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Body Technologies

Bodybuilding is a body technology that involves the building of muscle through hard work lifting weights. Although technologies like bodybuilding can reify dominant constructions of gender. I suggest that bodybuilding also reflects the attempts of participants to be active agents in the choices they make about their bodies. This article addresses the body as a work in progress and uses in-depth interviews with male and female bodybuilders to examine the ways that gender identity is consistently negotiated as participants reshape their bodies. This ongoing identity negotiation is reflected in the ways participants assess various body technologies, like bodybuilding, muscle-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery as natural or unnatural. Based on the responses, I explore the idea of a natural/unnatural continuum as a framework for understanding the ways that the participants fluctuate in their assessments of hugely built and other technologized bodies.

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