COMS 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Insite
15 Jun 2016
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How do we measure the marked body. These ways of spatializing the body has shifted over time. Similar to the idea of a theoretical lens; how this will shake your vision. This aligns with the idea that there"s not just 1 truth about the medical gaze. Idea is not to return you to the normal state but to make you better. Dilemmas about what we are, are now has a molecular form. Optimizing to be your best self, not to be corrected to be your normal self. The way we think and experience everyday is a matter of a metaphor. We are not aware of your conceptional system. We need to wake up these dead metaphors, not to get rid of them but to understand them. Puts the female body in a time structure. One way of understanding the body in terms of a machine. The body in this sense has clearly define borders.
