Biopolitical Metaphor
Habitualized Embodiment between Discourse and Affect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3808967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam Binkley (Emerson College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 95-124 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x18767390 |
| OpenAlex | W2799721108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article theorizes the biopolitical production of embodiment through a consideration of biopolitical metaphor. It is argued that much recent theoretical work on biopower fails to provide an adequate account of embodiment, and particularly the question of the habitualization of bodily experience. However, read through the lens of biopolitical metaphor, and drawing on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, a dynamic account of the biopolitical shaping of bodily memory and embodied habit becomes possible. Moreover, it is argued that a theory of biopolitical metaphor provides provocative openings for thinking together the recent discursively oriented work on biopower and other approaches associated with the affective turn, specifically around the problems of mimesis and supplement. New research directions are proposed, centered on common experiences of biopolitical domination among marginalized groups drawn from shared experiences of habit and embodiment
Aesthetics · Biopower · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
The normal and the pathological
After Affect
Commonwealth
Happiness as Enterprise
The contemporary theory of metaphor
Bourdieu
The Body in the Mind
The Subject and Power
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Foucault, Health and Medicine
The Logic of Practice
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, Ethnography
Normative Embodiment. The Role of the Body in Foucault's Genealogy. A Phenomenological Re-Reading
Changing the Subject
Intensities of feeling
A Body Worth Defending
Meeting the Universe Halfway
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought [and Comments and Reply]
Affect and Emotion
Parables for the Virtual
Affect and discourse - What's the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice
Bodily Integrity
Individuation, Relationality, Affect
Life Struggles
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field
The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |