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Regarding Rene Magritte?s Letter to Michel Foucault
2008-01-20 07:14:00 By Rajesh Shukla Surrealist painter Rene Magaritte After reading postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault?s book ?the order of things? wrote a letter to him with some photographs of his paintings. Letter was about relationship between things and words, thought and visuals, resemblance and similitude, Magaritte seeks confirmation on what he believes about thought and things. He says ...
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Foucault: Nietzsche, genealogía e historia
2007-11-14 23:26:00 Acabo de publicar en la web del Centro el artículo de Michel Foucault: “Nietzsche, la genealogía y la historia", en el cual el incisivo pensador francés comenta la distinción nietzscheana entre “historia” o “historiografía” como aparente narración “hilada” de los acontecimiento a partir de un “origen” (lo cual implica una concepción “absoluta”, “esencialista” y metafísica) y la “genealogía” como una deconstrucción de tal “trama” en la multiplicidad de sucesos y perspectivas.Así, Foucault escribe, entre otras cosas:...como si las palabras hubiesen guardado su sentido, los deseos su dirección, las ideas su lógica; como si este mundo de cosas dichas y queridas no hubiese conocido invasiones, luchas, rapiñas, disfraces, trampas. De aquí se deriva para la genealogía una tarea indispensable: percibir la singularidad de los sucesos, fuera de toda finalidad monótona; encontrarlos allí donde menos se espera y en aquello que pasa inadvertid...
Michel Foucault. "Technologies of the Self." English.
2007-09-25 03:51:00 Originally published:Martin, L.H. et al. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. London: Tavistock, 1988. Ppg.16-49.excerpts; page 11:__[T]he main features of both [the Catholic and Reform traditions] are an ensemble of truth obligations dealing with faith, books, dogma, and one dealing with truth, heart and soul. Access to truth cannot be conceived of without purity of the soul. Purity of the soul is the consequence of self-knowledge and a condition for understanding the text; in Augustine: Quis facit vertatem (to make truth in oneself, to get access to the light). __...[I]n order to get access to the light, the church conceived of illumination: the disclosure of the self. The sacrament of penance and the confession of sins are rather late innovations.
Michel Foucault: "Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia."
2007-09-25 02:31:00 - Text taken from a series of six lectures given by Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley, October through November of 1983.- Republished: Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 2001.- This text ed. J. Pearson, 1985, later transcripted for the web; however, footnotes and bibliography added by Pearson are missing.excerpts; Ch. 3—Parrhesia and the Crisis of Democratic Institutions: __The primary danger of liberty and free speech in a democracy is what results when everyone has his own manner of life, his own style of life . For then there can be no common logos, no possible unity, for the city.__Following the Platonic principle that there is an analogous relation between the way a human being behaves and the way a city is ruled, between the hierarchical organization of the faculties of a human being and the constitutional make-up of the polis, you can see very well that if everyone in the city behaves just as he or she wish...
Michel Foucault, "Discipline and Punish": "Panopticism".
2007-08-17 22:50:00 Published: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books 1995, ppg. 195-228.Originally translated by Alan Sheridan, 1977.Selections from Part III; Discipline:The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.It is an important mechanism, for it automatizes and disindividualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. The ceremonies, the rituals, the marks by which the sovereign's surplus power was manifested are useless. There is a machinery that assures dissymmetry, disequilibrium, difference. Consequently, it does not matter who exercises power.... [I]t does not matter what motive animates [the power-seeker]: the curio...
Fabricating Foucault: Rationalising the Management of Individuals (Marquett
2007-08-03 09:58:00 # Publisher: Marquette University Press (November 2003)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0874626617# ISBN-13: 978-0874626612This book explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project.Specifically, it asks whether and how the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change, can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualisation of power relations and his account of the subject. Firstly, it is shown how Foucault's genealogy, a hybrid and polemical approach, aims to call into question the theories and practices which underpin the present.Genealogy problematizes what we have come to take for granted, and in so doing it requires that we rethink not only the nature and history of Western philosophical thought but also the role of intellectuals. To attempt to write a history of truth is to ask what one can know of a concept which structures the very limits of our...
Michel Foucault, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire."
2007-07-26 22:49:00 Originally published: The Oxford Literary Review 4:1 (Autumn 1979), pp. 5-28. Trans. Geoff Bennington. Republished in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. J. Faubion, ed., (New York: New Press, 1998), pp. 393-417.Selection; page 413 in 5. The Extravagance of Painters:... Descartes fully faces up to the risk of madness; not as you pretend in a prefatorial and almost marginal way with reference to some business about jugs and naked kings, but at the very heart of his philosophical enterprise, at the precise moment where his discourse, separating itself form all natural considerations on the errors of the senses or the engorgements of the brain, takes on its radical dimension in hyperbolic doubt and the hypothesis of the evil genius.That is where madness is called into question and faced up to; with the evil genius i indeed suppose that i am even more radically mistaken than those who think they have a body made of glass—even go so far as persuading myself that two and three do n...
Michel Foucault, "My Body, This Paper, This Fire."
2007-07-26 22:49:00 Originally published: The Oxford Literary Review 4:1 (Autumn 1979), pp. 5-28. Trans. Geoff Bennington. Republished in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology. J. Faubion, ed., (New York: New Press, 1998), pp. 393-417.Selection; page 413 in 5. The Extravagance of Painters:... Descartes fully faces up to the risk of madness; not as you pretend in a prefatorial and almost marginal way with reference to some business about jugs and naked kings, but at the very heart of his philosophical enterprise, at the precise moment where his discourse, separating itself form all natural considerations on the errors of the senses or the engorgements of the brain, takes on its radical dimension in hyperbolic doubt and the hypothesis of the evil genius.That is where madness is called into question and faced up to; with the evil genius i indeed suppose that i am even more radically mistaken than those who think they have a body made of glass—even go so far as persuading myself that two and three do n...
?Miz Julia? sleeps with?.Foucault
2007-05-01 15:19:00 OK, so by now you’ve probably all heard of this women who sleep with a bunch of powerful men in DC for money. Her name is Deborah Jeane Palfrey, AKA, Miz Julia. From WashingtonPost.com: The little that is known about Palfrey comes from court records in California and Washington, interviews with acquaintances and a series of ...
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A 35 años del debate Chomsky/Foucault se edita debate
2007-04-28 15:56:00 La editorial argentina Katz, en noviembre de 2006, al cumplirse 35 años del debate entre Noam Chomsky y Michel Foucault ha publicado un libro en que contiene la versión completa de la polémica. El libro se titula: “La naturaleza humana justicia vesus poder” En el debate Chomsky sostenía, como hoy que ”el conocimiento instintivo, que permite obtener un conocimiento complejo e intrincado a partir de información muy fragmentaria, es un constituyente fundamental de la naturaleza humana”. A lo que Michel Foucault argumentó: “No fue mediante el estudio de la naturaleza humana que los lingüistas descubrieron las leyes de la mutación consonántica, ni Freud los principios de interpretación de los sueños, ni los antropólogos culturales la estructura de los mitos. Creo que en la historia del conocimiento el concepto de naturaleza humana cumplió el rol de un indicador epistemológico para designar ciertos discursos vinculados o contrapuest...
By: Luna Antagonica
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