The History of Sexuality (I).ppt

The History of Sexuality (I) Why “sexuality” 對於權力的看法的轉變 “The case of the penal system convinced me that the question of power needed to be formulated not so much in terms of justice as in those of technology, of tactics and strategy, and it was this substitution for a judicial and negative grid of a technical and strategic one that I tried to effect in Discipline and Punish and then to exploit in ‘The History of Sexuality’.” from ‘The History of Sexuality’ interview with Foucault by Lucette Finas, in Power/Knowledge, Colin Gordon ed., p. 184. What I want to show is how power relations can materially penetrate the body in depth, without depending even on the mediation of the subject’s own representations. If power takes hold on the body, this isn’t through its having to first to be interiorized in people’s consciousness. There is a network or circuit of bio-power, or somato-power, which acts as the formative matrix of sexuality itself as the historical and cultural phenomenon within which we seem at once to recognize and lose ourselves. (p. 186) “Sex”被當成愉悅以及規訓的核心 “For millennia the tendency has been to give us to believe that in sex, secretly at least there was to be found the alw of all pleasures, and that this I what justifies the need to regulate sex and makes its control possible” (ibid. 191). Sexuality處於Body和population 相遇之處 On the one hand, sexuality, being an eminently corporeal mode of behavior, is a matter of individualizing disciplinary controls that take the form of permanent surveillance Sexuality has procreative effects, so it is also inscribed, takes effect, in broad biological processes that concern not the bodies of individuals but the element, the multiple unity of the population. We “Other Victorians” 性壓抑的歷史 十七世紀時，仍十分開放，直接。（bodies made a display of themselves)，但是十七世紀末開始壓抑 維多利亞中產階級的禁欲與衿持 （A single locus of sexuality was acknowledged in social spaces as well as at the heart of every household, but it was a utilitarian and fertile one: the pare