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  1. May 2022
  2. Apr 2022
    1. Both models rest upon a modern premise: the mechanical external relationship between spirit and matter, between mind and body

      Like how idealism and mechanical materialism are two sides of the same coin.

    2. “repressive hypothesis”

      Jean Copjec argues that Foucault's reading misses the notion of primary repression (foreclosure) in Freud, and thus overlooks the fact that sex is a negativity in psychoanalysis. This primary repression should not be confused with the suppression of society. Instead it is a barrier to societal repression which is 'irrepressible'.

    3. Given that traditional anthropology didn’t consider the ges-tation and education techniques developed by African women as technology in the strict sense of the word

      What does 'strict sense' mean here? This seems to exemplify technics, not technology.

    4. technology

      I find this usage of the term a bit misleading, as technology is tied to the development of modern science (a merging of techne and episteme), whereas technics predates this development. Arguably, it was only in the 19th century that technology emerged.