HUMILIATION AS A TECHNOLOGY OF DISCIPLINE: BODY, OBEDIENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL POWER IN TAMIL FILM TAANAKKARAN
This paper presents an exhaustive post-structuralist and micro-sociological critique of the 2022 Tamil film Taanakkaran, directed by Tamizh, exploring the operationalization of somatic and psychological humiliation as a deliberate technology of discipline within the state's repressive apparatus. Drawing upon a systemat...