By Gilles Deleuze
Certainly one of an important works of 1 of France's most effective philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The common sense of experience starts off with a longer exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. contemplating stoicism, language, video games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the prestige of which means and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' the place feel and nonsense collide.
Written in an cutting edge shape and witty variety, The good judgment of feel is an essay in literary and psychoanalytic conception in addition to philosophy, and is helping to light up such works as Anti-Oedipus.
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I The Dis-Embodiment of Identity 1 HOMO CLAUSUS AND THE WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION Walls, then, are built not for security, but for a sense of security. The distinction is important, as those who commission them know very well. What a wall satisfies is not so much a material need as a mental one. Walls protect people not from barbarians, but from anxieties and fears, which can often be more terrible than the worst vandals. In this way, they are built not for those who live outside them, threatening as they may be, but for those who dwell within.
It is my suggestion then, that public toilet spaces can help us access the workings of power usually ignored in daily life, and thus help us to recognise the need to reconceive of how we construct and understand identity and embodiment in our (re)configuring of the world. B E I N G ( B E Y ON D) ON E SE LF xxxi NOTES 1. In both the American and British contexts, the distinction between privately owned and operated versus publicly owned and operated is often unclear. , government funding and private funding), and in England there are department stores, which have pay entry public toilets—these can be considered public toilets on private property that fetch a public fee for use.
CONCLUSION: BODY AS TERRITORY Homo clausus subjectivity is based upon a self within a body. This bodyidentity is not natural, but rather requires a substantial amount of work and effort to maintain. The inner sense of self is consolidated through the rational control of desires, drives, and emotions and the body is made into a conceptual case through the manifestation of imagined borders, which must be managed accordingly. This is accomplished (at least partly) through sensorial individuation, selective attention, and optical socialisation.