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some thoughts upon “category”
In The History of Sexuality, Foucault focuses his discussion in the beginning chapters on the specification of individuals. This is interesting to me because Foucault makes it clear that individuals are brought and placed into categories and these categories become a part of their identity. In the book, Foucault gives an example and says “the […]
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Cecilia in Arts one 2014-02-05 21:34:39
In The History of Sexuality, Foucault focuses his discussion in the beginning chapters on the specification of individuals. This is interesting to me because Foucault makes it clear that individuals are brought and placed into categories and these categories become a part of their identity. In the book, Foucault gives an example and says “the […]Continue reading →
The idea of the repressive hypothesis within a discourse – enjoy!
The idea of the repressive hypothesis in Foucault’s History of Sexuality finds its crucial formula in what Foucault would call a notion of silence. Foucault calls silence “the absolute limit of discourse (page 27)” and characterizes silence as a discretion … Continue reading →
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The Will to Knowledge
To me, the philosopher is one possessing the will to knowledge. Nietzsche counciled the philosopher to turn his will to knowledge into his will to power. Is this what Foucault has done? Or, perhaps, Foucault turned such a will around, and unearthed a much more insidious will, a will to classify, to assert, to make […]
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Arts One Ramblings
On the shelves stand monuments. They are not eternal. They are dead, all but the possibilities of resurrection. I think of Borges. I think of Bataille. I think of Blanchot. Today, in this city of rain and glass, we examine countless volumes under a neutral sky. We examine, we do not read. The sacred is […]
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Black Skin, White Language, One Person
You cannot think without a language. Every action of the mind is created with a form of a language. It follows that the greater control and knowledge of language you possess, the better you will be able to think. Furthermore, if you are able to spread that language, you will be more powerful. Your ideas […]
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Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Keep Fighting!
To go back briefly to the topic of Zombies, as we finish up reviewing those essays; I recently remembered a quote:E.E. Cummings wrote: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fig… Continue reading →
Freud – Dora an analysis of a case of Hysteria
Freud’s work has always fascinated me, even before reading this particular text because it deals with the individual and then …
