Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

i just got home and was going through my south park rip off each day calendar and found this beauty-after today, i had to post it.  its Halloween's day, of course, but chef's quote is "im gonna make love, even when im dead."  its already in my bag for tomorrow...awesome.

courtney 

i am chilling here and on maury (dont ask me why it was on-i dont watch that show ever) is the most despicable episode of all times.  "is it a man or a woman!" is the title.  all of these women are parading the stage in provocative halloween costumes as the crowd is chanting "THATS A MAN!" or "THATS A GIRL!"  it is ridiculous.  it is so relative to our class, i had to share with you all.

courtney 

Student searching for focused individual for project.  Partner would be enthusiastic about the project and also be willing to learn throughout the quarter.  Mac compatibility preferred.  Knowledge of photography a plus, but not required.  All individuals with professional cameras encouraged to respond.  Although individual should remain focused and enthusiastic, sticklers with time and up-tightedness should be avoided.  Someone who is not going to take over and control the group should also respond.

When Courtney and I (Garrett) thought about an everyday object that has a strong relationship with both the mind and body, we asked ourselves; what is something that can be found in just about every modern household.  After some contemplation, we decided that pills or medication would be a fine candidate.

What are pills?  Pills come in a large variety of different shapes, sizes, and colors.  They are typically ingested orally by humans, mostly to prevent or treat illnesses.  Pills are set to treat a wide variety of human afflictions that affect their bodies.  Most treat infections, anxiety, heart/cholesterol problems, and depression.  Most humans today have taken a prescription in their lifetimes.

Pharmacy: Arrived at the big building with big huge clear doors that opened automatically when we approached.  Inside was a big ladder-like thing that had people walking up them to get to what looked like another level of the building.  To the left was area with a bunch of places to rest our legs and sit down with a row of endless windows.  The windows had a person behind each one and would use a black stick to make a loud sound with (calling out numbers) and then a bright sign would appear with 197, 282, etc.  We realized we were supposed to go to this machine, press this marked button and get a slip of paper with these markings on it.  When that marking showed up on the screen, we were to go up to the window.

When our number, 107, was called, we brought up a slip of paper that was allowing the window person to dispense what they called medication or pills.  Once we were finished with the pharmacy, we went to go check out these pills.

Inside the brown paper thing with this cylindrical container was a piece of paper with writing on it.  In the English language, this paper is the medication’s interaction and implication guide.  This guide told us what the pills would do and how to take them.  

Apparently, pills are given to humans by “doctors.”  Doctors go to school for a long time in order to prescribe pills and heal sick people.  Some may debate this being a good thing.

http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/histofsex/context.html

 

if you need any translation like me, this site might help.

courtney

•    Student blogs
•    Went out and performed observations on the SEM II smoker’s tent.
•    Around 35 smokers appeared
•    Observed social etiquette of the smokers tent-don’t sit next to someone, most people told us that they met most of their friends at the smoker’s tents.  The one by the dorms apparently are the “cool smokers” who are intelligent.  
•    Most people thought we were observing the tent for the school and gave opinions and input about how when they smoke alone, they feel isolated.
•    The body language was observed-arms crossed only enough to be “crossed” and not burn selves.  
•    Tent was NOT tall enough for someone tall to be seen-they look like a giraffe if one were not in the tent and walking towards it.  
•    Being the main social outlet (friend finder, conversation starter, cig stealing), the population observed in our 20 minutes seemed large for the non-smoking school.  

Mauss/Douglas articles

•    culturally creative; separate vs the individual-see the text in collective reason.  Some kind of model that behaviors originate-individual reaction and move away from the notion of having a soul.  Object of technique-body as an object.  Socialized behaviors
•    loss that all natural instincts are being honed into society-good or bad thing-etiology.  Increasingly more developed
•    gained through tradition and technique; studied societies and wanted to find ways to classify each.  Groups of people without tradition
•    natural; primitive; unconscious; uncontrolled/brutal
•    social; socialized; conscious; controlled
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•    mary Douglas-the two bodies are the self and society
•    more of a sense of agency-douglas had less than mauss
•    Evergreen’s culture.  No frats or sororities
•    Self-individual student, institution decides
•    The body is not just who we can view on the outside-note down visual and audio details about the body.
•    Thinking of systems of power
•    The more complex…disembodied spirits.