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ambivalence and normality, madness and moderation, disfraction and unity are
inscribed on the three bodily domains. As Jackson points out: “places become
the objective correlatives of our inner lives”. T h e remapping of places
inevitably invokes reshaping the terrain of the self. Both place and self are
connected by ‘intimate metaphors’ by which experience is fused with
embodiment.'^ To coin Foucault, the practice of using landmines, a technique of
dominating the body, has not only exploited the interconnections between land
and self to forni ‘docile bodies’ which are alienated from their life worlds but
has also reduced the ability for individuals to consummate their embodiment to
place. Foucault termed the governance of the body as a form of ‘bio-power’, in
which power is exercised over individuals by various institutions.A s Jackson
argues, this new kind of governance is crucial to technology’s preoccupation
with maintaining a rational pattern of order and control, and is historically
constituted by a concern for dominating nature and those human beings (who
are) categorised as being inferior.''^
For Foucault, “technologies of domination act essentially on the body,
and classify and objectify individuals.”'^ Foucault argued that bio-power was an
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