Author(s): Jan Gresil KAHAMBING
Michel Foucault cautions, especially in Discipline and Punish and the History of Sexuality, that in the modern demonstrations of power, the mechanisms of disciplinarity become intolerable when drawn nearer to social injustices. The metaphorical background that can contextualize this is a life of theogonic myth and the herd à la Nietzsche, among others. The human within such frame is exposed to various forms of power dominance from racial intolerance, social prejudices, to the alienating prospects of capitalistic elites and sociopolitical eccentricities of power relations. Amid the contemporariness of converging and overlapping modes of power handling, this paper appraises the question of human agency to examine how much of agency is undermined. With the threat to agency in mind, the paper attempts to further appraise the mechanisms of pedagogy and sex in particular by exposing them within the ambiguous ambit of modern power play. Keywords
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