Foucault
Foucualt’s History of Sexuality in video
Gregory alerted me to this video via Twitter, and I think it’s a rather fun synopsis of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, though there are a few inaccuracies. Particularly, I like the juxtapositions in the film (especially the use of Elmo!):
hermeneutics of desire and outing politicians
Outrage, a film about politicians who actively work against the interests of queers yet allegedly have gay sex, premiered on Friday in a few cities. It’s playing in Philadelphia, and I really want to go see it, but can’t really afford the drive to Philly at this point. Mostly, I’m less interested in what the [...]
cite check
Inside Higher Ed has a post about poor citation in academic publishing. I’ve noticed this problem a few times in journal articles and books: misspelled authors’ names, wrong journal volume numbers, a bibliographic entry that doesn’t have the translator listed, a quotation that isn’t clear that it’s the authors’ translation of a French text, and [...]
should scientists have to read foucault and adorno?
“In reality, a cycle of manipulation and retroactive need is unifying the system ever more tightly…. Technical rationality today is the rationality of domination” (Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of the Enlightenment 95). I just read this LA times story titled “What does gay look like? Science keeps trying to figure that out.” In it, various [...]
some notes from gallagher and greenblatt
On New Historicism: Does this mean that we have constituted ourselves as, in the words of a detractor, “the School of Resentment”? Not at all: we are, if anything, rather inclined to piety. Nonetheless, any attempt at interpretation, as distinct form worship, bears a certain inescapable tinge of aggression, however much it is qualified by [...]
Christo-fascism and power is knowledge
Joseph Orosco today posts some good thoughts on Carolyn Baker’s review of Chris Hedges’s new book American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America. Joseph ends his post by asking, Is there such a thing as Christian Fascism? Is there a way to talk about the sacred that is not tainted by empire [...]
panopticism
I am in the middle of reading “Panopticism” by Foucault, and I’m certain I’ll be using this for my paper on punk pedagogy. Punk is about breaking discipline, about fighting discipline, and this essay is exactly about discipline, and it’s so true (it’s scary!): The disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals….They become [...]
Falling for Foucault
Recently, I’ve been reading some Foucault for theory group and for Writing 593. I’ve read sections of The Order of Things, the essays “What is an Author” and “Nietzsche, Geneology, History,” and an excerpt from “The Order of Discourse.” From “The Order of Discourse”: Any system of education is a political way of maintaining or [...]
