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What do thinking, eating and engaging in sex have in common? This seems a strange question. Participation in thinking, food and sex are really quite different activities. But Monica Greco\u2019s work helps us think about the meaning of participation. In this paper we draw on ideas from Greco and Lauren Berlant in considering the book Two Girls, Fat and Thin<\/em> by Mary Gaitskill. Gaitskill\u2019s book dramatizes the ways in which thinking, eating and sex may have much in common. In particular, they\u00a0can all function as ways to dial up or down a person\u2019s exposure to others and to the world, and therefore as symbols of self-control or lack of self-control. In this, together they can tell us something important about how coping works, in general but also especially under oppressive conditions where other resources are scarce or unavailable. As Berlant emphasises, all three practices hold out ways in which we may feel<\/em> less powerless – but this may be quite different from actually being less powerless. Gaitskill\u2019s work also suggests ways that these practices can also have incremental long-term consequences for the body. To further explore this, the paper then looks at the ethnographic findings of Alexandra Michel, whose thirteen-year study traced the process of physical burnout among investment bankers. Michel\u2019s ethnography offers insight into how the body\u2019s cues about what is or is not sustainable are variously interpreted, heeded or ignored. The work of Berlant, Gaitskill and Michel together illustrate principles in Greco\u2019s conceptualisation of participation and embodiment, and her new interpretation of the idea of \u2018psychosomatics\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Article Summary by Robbie Duschinsky What do thinking, eating and engaging in sex have in common? This seems a strange question. Participation in thinking, food and sex are really quite different activities. But Monica Greco\u2019s work helps us think about the meaning of participation. In this paper we draw on ideas from Greco and Lauren […]<\/p>\n

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