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The Architecture of Desire and the Somatic Screen: Michel Foucault, Patriarchal Diversion, and the Illusions of the Commodified Body

Author(s) Arijit Das
Country India
Abstract This paper examines Michel Foucault’s foundational 1976 text, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. It interrogates his critique of the "repressive hypothesis", the widely held assumption that Western modernity has systematically suppressed sexuality since the seventeenth century.
Keywords Commodification, Patriarchy, Sex, Culture
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-28

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