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Cass Boe is on page 83 of 196

"The 'normative', 'healthy' body...speaks to its society of an adherence to tenets of purity and maintenance of the body through self-control and managed desires. However, this venerated body is a fundamentally immaterial one. By this, I mean to suggest that this 'normative' body is nowhere to be found as a reality...Given this 'normative slender' body's immateriality, >>>all bodies fail as projects<<<" (p. 79)

— Dec 18, 2022 09:57PM

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Cass Boe is on page 138 of 196

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Cass Boe is on page 117 of 196

"Insofar as meaning and identity are fundamentally intercorporeal, then self-transformation can never be effected simply at the level of the 'individual' in liberal terms" (p. 115-116).

— Dec 19, 2022 01:09PM

Cass Boe is on page 77 of 196

"More than a simple response to a biological requirement for nutrition, eating situates subjects as responsible or irresponsible...In the midst of public health campaigns against 'obesity', then...eating practices become tools of self-authorship...thus food and eating practices are less empirical objects or natural occurrences than highly mediated technologies which are shaped by and reinforce humanist logic" (p. 66)

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Cass Boe is on page 52 of 196

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Cass Boe is on page 17 of 196

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