The discussion today centres on the concept of the technologies of sex, a phrase that derives from the work of Micheal Foucault. By 'technologies of sex' I am thinking of the ideas of the French philosopher Michel Foucault and his thinking about how the self and gender are the product of various social technologies such as cinema and institutionalized discourses and epistemologies of daily life. The term technology leads to a certain understanding of social systems as functioning a bit like machines to produce the things we see as material and real.
I talk with Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekis Ekman about issues of gender theory today and her work on the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajsa_Ekis_Ekman
