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“ Liveable ” Life. What’s a Liveable Life?. What would a liveable life look like? How do you frame a liveable life?. Where does the idea of Self come from?. Where does the Idea of Other come from?. Body. Self – Autonomy Other – Relationship of vulnerability
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What’s a Liveable Life? • What would a liveable life look like? • How do you frame a liveable life?
Body Self – Autonomy Other – Relationship of vulnerability Language – Behaviour, learned over time Desire – How is desire produced?
What’s a human? • How are humans valued? • Are some more human than other? • How are some outside the frame of being considered human? • Those outside the frame can be called real?
Social Norms • Norm: “implicit (or hidden) standard of normalization” –Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender • Norm is not a rule; Norm is not a law • Norms determine the frame to evaluate what’s human and what’s subhuman. • Norms evolve continuously: standards of normal also change. Who’s added, Who’s taken out? • Norms are necessary?
Performance • How do norms set the frame of a liveable life? • Performance: gender, sexuality, religiosity, ethnicity, identity.