technology of the body, n.All

A Technology of the body is a level of analysis that isolates on the one hand the body in its biological functioning and on the other the body as an institutional apparatus of force.

A Technology of the body is an idea that contradicts racialist conceptions which try to make out that man is a product of his body, man has, at all times and in all places, been able to turn his body into a product of his techniques and his representations.

A Technology of the body is the anti-racialist idea that man is not a product of his body, but rather, the body is a product of man's ability to turn his body into a product of his techniques and his representations.