{"id":5261,"date":"2007-12-26T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2007-12-26T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T18:21:00","slug":"the-body-as-a-floating-signifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-body-as-a-floating-signifier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Body As A Floating Signifier\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for some sociology? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/story\/254165.html\" title=\"Once more, with intensity -- Shiv Visvanathan\">Shiv Visvanathan on <i>Aaja Nachle<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let me rephrase the script sociologically. In India, today, two events have a dramatic quality as social facts. One is the growth of the small town as the agent of globalisation, and the second is the explosion of the body and its fragmentation. The body as a floating signifier includes the body of the beauty contest, the body as organ, the sexual body of the new generation and the bonded body of tradition, all seeking to define the body politic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier<\/b>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/the-nude-bodies-of-ranbir-kapoor-and-shah-rukh-khan\/\" title=\"The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan\">The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/dave-barry-on-sociology\/\" title=\"Dave Barry on Sociology\">Dave Barry on Sociology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready for some sociology? Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/story\/254165.html\" title=\"Once more, with intensity -- Shiv Visvanathan\">Shiv Visvanathan on <i>Aaja Nachle<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let me rephrase the script sociologically. In India, today, two events have a dramatic quality as social facts. One is the growth of the small town as the agent of globalisation, and the second is the explosion of the body and its fragmentation. The body as a floating signifier includes the body of the beauty contest, the body as organ, the sexual body of the new generation and the bonded body of tradition, all seeking to define the body politic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><b>Earlier<\/b>: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-nude-bodies-of-ranbir-kapoor-and-shah-rukh-khan\/\" title=\"The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan\">The Nude Bodies of Ranbir Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/dave-barry-on-sociology\/\" title=\"Dave Barry on Sociology\">Dave Barry on Sociology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cThe Body As A Floating Signifier\u201d - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-body-as-a-floating-signifier\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cThe Body As A Floating Signifier\u201d - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ready for some sociology? 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