"Les usages politiques du corps". Université d’été du 25 au 30 aout 2014 en Albanie. / Luca Paltrinieri

"From disciplined body to managed body"

In a lectures recently published (la Société Punitive), Michel Foucault shows how, from the end of XVIIe century, the workers body was disciplined by a series of techniques to enable it to be more performant in different institutions : workshops, schools, army and so on. In my thesis work I showed how certain elements of these disciplines were used in sexual practices, notably in view of birth control. These practices were political because considered as subversions of "the procreation order" (...)