Summary: Sociogenic Principle

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• 1 Wynter

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• ontogenetic concept of the human

  development of one organism from embryo to adulthood

• What are the two parallel forms of Man and Other 

  True Christian and homo politicus are other titles that handle superiority besides the white man.

• 2 Butler

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• What does mourning/grief show us about what it’s like to be human

  one cannot explain the feeling of losing someone, just like how it cannot be explained what it like to be human. this shows that humans are not always "well put together"

• gender and sexuality are modes of being dispossessed, ways of “being for another by virtue of another.” 

  Gender and sexuality is not what a person "is". Gender and sexuality are labels that society puts on humans to tell the difference between groups of people. You cannot hold gender.

• general response” of Americans to September 11

  hysteria, rage, anxiety

• How are the needs of bodies both historical and ahistorical? 

  There is not a way to separate the idea of bodily needs from representational scheme that recognizes bodily needs and fails to recognize them. The relationship between the body is chiastic which means that A goes with B and that B goes with A. The body has to be represented, but it is never fully exhausted by that representation. 

• 3 Fanon

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• reaching for cigarettes (his “body schema”) 

  he has control of his arm, he is doing it by free will

• experience of his own blackness (his “historical-racial schema” or “epidermal racial schema”) 

  he has no control over how people see his body. people are scared of him just for being black

•  “accept” that he is the “grandson of slaves.”

  the same way President Lebrun accepts he is the grandson of peasants

• troubling about the voices that say “Quite so, the Black is just as much a man as we are”

  they make it seem as if racism is a joke, or unreal. it is not taken seriously