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The Myth of Homo Normalis: Archaeology of the Legible Human
The provided text is an essay by Bry Willis, titled "The Myth of Homo Normalis: Archaeology of the Legible Human," which critically analyses the historical and philosophical origins of the concept of "normality." The central argument is that normality was not discovered but was intentionally engineered by Enlightenment, statistical, and state powers to make human life manageable and legible to control. The essay traces this process across several domains, including the invention of the average man in the nineteenth century, the use of taxonomy by Enlightenment reason, the rise of biopower…
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