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Thoughts on Foucault
Upon reading Foucault’s text this week, I found myself intrigued because it didn’t feel like I was reading a typical work of philosophy. I think it was summed up during lecture when Christina said that Foucault never attempted to suggest new ways of thinking, but more so leaves it up to the reader to take […] Continue reading →
Thoughts on Foucault
Upon reading Foucault’s text this week, I found myself intrigued because it didn’t feel like I was reading a typical work of philosophy. I think it was summed up during lecture when Christina said that Foucault never attempted to suggest new ways of thinking, but more so leaves it up to the reader to take […] Continue reading →
The Sex was (not) Spectacular
Hey all, Here comes another blog post from yours truly. So this week (next week) we had to read Foucault’s book (i dunno if it is an essay or what) called The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An introduction. When I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Sex was (not) Spectacular
Hey all, Here comes another blog post from yours truly. So this week (next week) we had to read Foucault’s book (i dunno if it is an essay or what) called The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An introduction. When I … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Ramble…Ramble…Fanon…Ramble.
I’m really happy that we are finally getting into the books that I find interesting and actually enjoy reading! As I said in seminar today to my groupies, I find it completely strange when I think about race and how people are still excluded from different things or treated differently because of who they are. […] Continue reading →
Are we all under Freud masks?
I would actually like to discuss the points brought up in the lecture for my blog post. I thought the idea of “We are all Freudians now” really stuck out to me. I had never really thought about freud having … Continue reading → Continue reading →
What is culture to you?—Essentially, Who are you?
I pose these questions in the wake of reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, a book about the psychological effects on black (and white) people imposed by culture and therefore by society. This seemed a large point of Fanon’s argument, that … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Behind the Mask
So, I’ve kind of put the different texts that we’ve been reading in Arts one into two different categories. The first group consists of works that I very much enjoy due to the fact that I typically find myself in … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Fanon: Interesting theories, potential over-simplifications?
While it is impossible to deny that Fanon brings up some compelling points about the impacts of cultural assimilation, I find myself inclined to disagree with some of his generalizing statements. Firstly, when Fanon states that, “a normal Negro child, having … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Freud: Science and Psychology
Last seminar, a heated discussion arose about the nature of psychology, and whether or not it is in fact a science. I called it a pseudo-science, much to the insult of several of my classmates. After many interesting discussions and … Continue reading → Continue reading →
