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From norm to risk: transformation in the contemporary production of subjectivities

The following article is based on the Foucautian premise that resistance is always the first step. The article also functions as a barometer of the transformations stemming from the social movements that rejected the disciplinarian society. These transformations include: changes on production of subjectivity and changes in the control of bodily behavior. These transformations will then chart the transition from a society based on the normatization of the subjects to that of a society which controls the risks of the everyday life. Secondly, the article will show this transition leading to the revitalization for the capacity of social command of capitalism over the people. Finally, it will reveal the institutionalization of some power mechanisms which have been imposed and naturalized nowadays, and to the subjectivities which they have in sequentially produced.

production of subjectivity; control society; risk


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