“[T]he body is . . . directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.” (25)
The body is strong and can endure great pain to a point; training it for something can either be easy or hard depending on the task in which training for. My understanding of to invest it (the body)… is to possibly in our time put life insurance upon yourself. To me this is investing the body with security upon demand of it. To train it is to go through tasks and learn what to do and what not to do while completing these tasks. To torture the body can also mean to irritate the body; for example if you have broken a bone, you know that your body goes through tremendous pain and it’s somewhat like torture.. Forcing the body to do something is to make the body do something that it wasn’t made or able to do. Basically the body has enormous power and a great deal of understanding to pain and tasks.
“[I]t is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labor power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection . . . the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body.” (26)
In order for the body to be productive; it feeds off of power and is run by domination. To meet the demands of production your body needs physical power. Getting this power comes from nutrients that the body feeds off of, you mainly get this power by eating good food and getting your sleep a whole 8-10 hours is the best way for your body to get the power that it needs for the next day. I agree that " the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body" because having a productive and subjected body; equals power and force.
The body is strong and can endure great pain to a point; training it for something can either be easy or hard depending on the task in which training for. My understanding of to invest it (the body)… is to possibly in our time put life insurance upon yourself. To me this is investing the body with security upon demand of it. To train it is to go through tasks and learn what to do and what not to do while completing these tasks. To torture the body can also mean to irritate the body; for example if you have broken a bone, you know that your body goes through tremendous pain and it’s somewhat like torture.. Forcing the body to do something is to make the body do something that it wasn’t made or able to do. Basically the body has enormous power and a great deal of understanding to pain and tasks.
“[I]t is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labor power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection . . . the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body.” (26)
In order for the body to be productive; it feeds off of power and is run by domination. To meet the demands of production your body needs physical power. Getting this power comes from nutrients that the body feeds off of, you mainly get this power by eating good food and getting your sleep a whole 8-10 hours is the best way for your body to get the power that it needs for the next day. I agree that " the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body" because having a productive and subjected body; equals power and force.
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- mind/ body relationship...we may not think our body can do things, but mentally we can push ourselves to achieve "value"...Trevor is addressing individual power here.
- Evan discussed that the slave maybe didn't know a different way of life...so if you don't know anything beyond that life, how do you know there's something different/ better/ more akin to what we now recognize as sustaining human rights.
- There were rebellions, so status quo was not necessarily "just how it was"/ accepted. Owners were afraid, so had power/ weapons available to beat the rebellion out of the slaves.
- Katie said that killing slaves was legal for the owner, so the impetus to get away was probably tempered by the notion that slaves could be murdered -- and would be murdered if they were caught.
Regarding the 2nd quote...
- Rebecca addressed the adaptation of the body to certain circumstances (ie eatng less food/ poor quality food results in the body adapting to its environs).
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