Reading bodily suffering as dissent requires criteria distinct from reading class dissent

Evidence

The problem, however, is that to read the sick body’s behavior as “expressions of dissent” we need different translation criteria from those we employ when we identify working-class dissent. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 342

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: the category error of applying a single autonomy model to both working-class politics and bodily illness — how ‘agency’ conceals two different translation problems.
• XREF: connects to: The picaresque genre inherently works to make suppressed suffering visible — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 957