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Title: | El cuerpo y los peligros cotidianos: Origen y consolidación del individuo hipervigilante en el imaginario colectivo |
Other Titles: | The body and everyday dangers: origin and consolidation of the hypervigilant individual in collective imagination |
Author: | Taranilla García, Raquel |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
Citation: | Taranilla García, R. (2018). El cuerpo y los peligros cotidianos: Origen y consolidación del individuo hipervigilante en el imaginario colectivo. Papeles del CEIC, 2018(1), -. doi: 10.1387/pceic.17727 |
Abstract: | In the tension between security and freedom, which is the core of advanced liberalism, the invention of risk plays an essential role, not only because it solves dilemmas of public governance, but also because it has permeated in the private sphere of individuals, making emerge a new subjectivity: the hypervigilant individual. This theoretical article addresses how, within the culture of danger, the so-called actuarial reason (which uses statistics in the calculation of risks) transforms the medical gaze to the pathological fact, what in turn affects the way the individuals understand their own body and the dangers that threaten it. This new subjectivity demands prudent behaviors, which does not compromise the safety of the body, and often it also requires the involvement in disease prevention and health promotion. In addition, actuarial medicine breaks up the body and computes the specific risks of each fragment, what prompts the individual to self-conceptualize as a risk map. Hypervigilance has become fixed in the collective imagination, so it may be identified in contemporary cultural productions. Lydia Davis' narrative provides illustrative examples of the hypervigilant individual. |
Keywords: | Governance of the body Risk Subjectivity Hypervigilance Collective imagination |
DOI: | 10.1387/pceic.17727 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 3-Mar-2018 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles cientÍfics Articles |
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