Critical Bodies

A very simple (growing) list of approaches and theories of the body

• the phenomological body of Maurice Merleau Ponty

• the practiced body (habitus) of Pierre Bourdieu

• the docile, disciplined body of Michel Foucault

• the performed body of Judith Butler

• the institutionally positioned body of Antonio Gramsci

• the erotic body of Audre Lorde

• the borderlands body of Gloria Anzaldúa

• the bounded body of Sigmund Freud

• the oddkin body(s) of Donna Haraway

• the maternal body of Julia Kristeva

• the material body of Stacy Alaimo

• the materialist body of Karl Marx

• the materialized body of Karen Barad

• the somatic social body of Bryan Turner

• the psycho-socio-somatic body of Arthur Kleinman

• the affective, biomediated body of Patricia T. Clough

• the organless body (BoW) of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

• the assemblaged body of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

• the dividual body of Marilyn Strathern

• the fragmented body of Bernadette Wegenstein

• the historico-racialized body of Franz Fanon

• the subaltern subject’s body of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• the emergence body of Sylvia Wynter

• the lived body in illness of Havi Carel

• the patriarchally formed moral-political body of Saba Mahmood

• the mindful body of Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock

• the extended modal body of Baruch Spinoza

• the intercarnational body(s) of Catherine Keller

• the volatile body of Elizabeth Grosz

• the two bodies of Mary Douglas

• the techniques of the body by Marcel Mauss

• the tomboy body of Barbara Creed

• the nervous system and the body of Michael Taussig

• the woman in the body of Emily Martin

• the embodied paranoia of Arthur Frank

• the fleshed religious body of Mayra Rivera

• the reader of the body by Mariam Fraser & Monica Greco

• the posthuman body of Rosi Braidotti

• the gut writing body of Elizabeth A. Wilson

• the autotheorizing body of Maggie Nelson

• the bodying event body of Brian Massumi

• the viscous porous body of Nancy Tuana

Notes & related touch points —

• Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish — “docile body” — “something that can be made; out of a formless clay, an inapt body [from which] the machine required can be constructed” (135). It is “a political anatomy” (138). It is “pliable,” capable of being “manipulated, shaped, trained” (135, 136). “Training” encompasses institutions and the force of their “arrangements,” their “techniques,” and their “mechanics of power,” like prisons, the military, schools.

• Julia Kristeva’s subject-in-process