Somathorybics: The Governance of Bodies as Noise
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https://doi.org/10.54337/ojs.jos.v12i1.11401Abstract
This article introduces somathorybics as a framework for analyzing how institutions govern embodied presence once bodies are treated as noise rather than communicative media. It identifies four operators of sensory governance: 1) filtration constrains permissible presence and access; 2) compression renders embodied variation administratively actionable; 3) amplification scales vigilance through spectacle and smart systems; and 4) leakage names the everyday return of embodied interference through protest, micro-tactics, writing, and aesthetic indirection. The framework offers a portable vocabulary for describing sensory governance as infrastructural management of bodily legibility, not only discursive control, especially in authoritarian contexts where perception becomes a routine technology.
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