文化、技术与社会中的身体

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• Corporeal realism does not entail the assertion that everybody's body is absolutely identical, but does require us to accept that similarly embodied humans share certain physical powers and socially generative capacities. Nor, as I shall emphasize shortly, does it rule out the idea that bodily potentials are mediated by society. It is simplistic and unhelpful to suggest that we have to conceptualize the body-society relationship as governed either by biological essentialism or by social constructionism (Shilling, 1993, 2003; Sayer, 2000). (查看原文)

  Ahasver 2014-09-18 10:06:49

• Social constructionist analyses tend to be united, however, by a political concern with the subjugation of bodily diversity and creativity in the contemporary era. These theories were effective in illuminating how the body was ordered and inscribed by power relations, but frequently remained silent about how the body could be a source of the social, and about the ‘lived experience’ of embodied action. They also tended to erase any ontological existence the body had apart from society, thus making it impossible to evaluate institutions in terms of their beneficial or detrimental effects on the body. In response to this lacuna, the 1990s witnessed a rise in studies about ‘the body’s own experience of its embodiment’ which viewed the opportunities and constraints of action as given by the... (查看原文)

  Ahasver 2014-09-18 10:55:25

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