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Title:: Fission and Fusion of the Postmodern Body: An Analysis of Physical Discipline Techniques in Political Rituals

Keywords:: political ritual; physical discipline techniques; compulsory fusion; active fusion

Abstract:: In the postmodern context, the tendency of the fission of the postmodern body directly prevents individuals from reaching political consensus and indirectly undermines the stability of the political power system and the existence of the political culture of nation-states. As a kind of special system of political behavior, the political ritual has two such functions as a continuous physical discipline technique and a stable physical discipline technique. The former function is traditional in that it works externally and forces the split body to combine together; the other is postmodern in the sense that it works internally, enabling the individual citizens to unite together actively by raising their awareness of their innate political rights and duties.