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• The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…
• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
• The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
• Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
• To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…
• The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…
• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…

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