July 2009
10 posts
From SP: How the destructive nature of sex takes a...
I want to talk about the destructive nature of sexuality, but I’m scared. It’s not that I’m embarrassed by the topic; it’s that sexuality is no single thing to me. It’s a conglomerate of ideas that fit uncomfortably into one another; and mold in and out of each other, and alter to challenge and accommodate one another. I’m also scared to talk about it because...
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If only Foucault had lived to see the Internet →
Been scavenging around the Internet, checking what the blogosphere has to say about Foucault. Here’s one that, in so few words, makes an interesting connection between Foucault’s dissatisfaction with information that passes through one “mainstream” (often-controlled) channel and the cacophony of voices and views powered by the Internet. If only Foucault had lived to see the...
Exam 1: Foucaldian Concepts
According to this webpage on Michel Foucault’s works, these are some of the terms that have been “coined or largely redefined by Foucault, as translated into English”:
* biopower/biopolitics * Disciplinary institutions * episteme * genealogy * governmentality * heterotopia * parrhesia * power * state racism
You may:
Pick one and define it in your own words.
Discuss...
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I was Michel Foucault's Love Slave →
A girl’s confession about her extreme love of Theory. A humorous, poignant read. An excerpt:
I am a child of Theory. I avoided this truth because I didn’t want to confront the deep, strange river of pretentiousness that courses in my veins. But lately I’ve begun to think my predicament is less reflective of a private eccentricity than of a weird historical moment. The moment...
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thefoucauldian.co.uk library →
An online library of texts on and by Foucault.
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“The panoptic mechanism arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see...”
– -Michel Foucault
From Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) translated from the French by Alan Sheridan © 1977
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Foucauldian Concepts →
July 2009, Month 1 is Foucault Month here on Academic Polygamy.