James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Subjectivation and Self Punishing Society
The title of your book is subjectality. What does it mean to be a subject? It's the process of becoming an individual person, being haled into a set of ritual practices at ritual script or several ritual scripts. We become conscious of ourselvesa self consciousnesss seeing oneself through the eyes of the other as a result of all these these interactions. So this is kind of our fuco panopticis and butler on the one hand, now, i want to maintain that there's a natural fit betweensubjectivity and society. This is really fitting and a great parallel for understanding how society is formed.
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