Violence Pt. 2: Symbolic and the Body
<p>A while ago on Medium, I wrote an <a href="https://medium.com/@nwilson11/identity-power-and-difference-7bf26b7da172" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, “Identity, Power, and Difference,” where I drew on Butler, Foucault, and Deleuze, to illustrate the dynamics between more broadly defined forms of social power and the emancipatory potential that subjects can house in the face of this. Reviewing some of Bourdieu’s writings necessitates a reconsideration of the body, in terms of how power is actually situated. The key points are that, when it comes to the relation between agents and the structures they inhabit, it is not a matter of a kind of “resistance” or freedom that can be engendered from this, but the way they internalize these norms. And so, my critique is effectively that habitus holds sway by individuals recognizing their particularity, instead of there being some totalizing dynamic to the way subjects navigate social spaces.</p>
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