ソシオロジ
Online ISSN : 2188-9406
Print ISSN : 0584-1380
ISSN-L : 0584-1380
小特集/身体と社会
皿 〈私〉さがしの「見る」「見られる」「見せる」
自己誘惑する遊走身体
柳原 佳子
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ジャーナル フリー

1991 年 36 巻 1 号 p. 30-40,180

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 Where're going our bodies? Can we now find our own bodies in whole? This paper is an introduction to a revised conceptualization of "human body" in these days. The meaning and position of our human bodies are changing.
 The image or perception of human body is basically derived from the concept of "individual" in modern societies. But now, near the end of 20th century, with conspicuous development of technology, our living world has already entered into the next phase of modern times. We are living in the trans-national, trans-political, trans-sexual, trans-physical world.
 In such a complicated world, the conventional definition of "individual" or that anthropological boundary of "body" has become inappropriate to see our real lives. The concept of "individual", i.e. individual human unit, is, for instance, divided to 'genes' by genetic engineering. Or, "body" is divided, by sociology, into 'efficiently productive body' 'reproductive body' 'sexual body'.
 These sociologically divided bodies are further divided, and linked to the high-tech machinery, to electronic drain, to internal organ transplant, to artificial fertilization, or to fascinating make-up and aesthetic incarnation, and so on.
 Our bodies are, then, consisted in half-dead and half-alive, drifting in the electronic media world, floating in the simulational environment. We are now, libing as the simulacle bodies without any individual 'real self or 'core self in them. These transparent bodies are playing with seducing the code system, while those bodies are seduced with that code system, which had already lost their original values.

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