We don't use machines, we build them: CrossFit, the body, and Technologies of self

• Main Author: Madamba, Rafaella Maria H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology); Individuality; Body image; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14891
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research examines identity formation, primarily through the lens of Foucault's Technologies of self, of members of the CrossFit community. With the body as the locale identity and individuation, the research enquires into the various ways members of this community affect change upon their bodies and thus their selves. The aim of this research is to look at the ways in which identity is a discursive position, or is identity/sociality self-transformation, self-cultivation, self-creation through an active, intentional engagement with norms and values. CrossFit was chosen as a point of examination as its extreme nature renders it highly interesting and thus serves to expose facets of the current culture, such as the emphasis of individualism, increasing secularisation, and more.