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

Calvin

Week One

e-Corpus #1

So lately I have been listening to this radio program called “Radio Lab”. It’s this rally good NPR show out of New York and every episode has to do with some topic of scientific that they often link to artistic expression. I just finished listing to this one episode that I found particularly interesting because it seemed to connect to the class. The topic was the idea of emergence, an idea that creatures can be smarter in a group than as individuals. This happens with lots of animals do this from ants, to fireflies, to humans. I think that is idea, at least in some ways, connects to what Foucault talks about. Thought they seem to be contrary, Foucault makes it sound as though discourse we come together to keep ourselves down. But the ideas of emergence, when people come together they are smarter. Are these ideas contrary or does it mean that if when people come together and make the wrong diction are they being miss lead in some way to give a poor answer. Pleas download the podcast at radiolab.org or though iTunes, the episode is called Emergence, and let me know what you think. Does this idea of intelligent thought numbers work when it comes to how society functions.