Thinking about Foucault… Just when you thought you had started to figure things out along come Foucault and changes everything…again! Where to begin though? I…
On The Enlightenment
This [transformation of the critique] entails an obvious consequence: that criticism is no longer going to be practiced in the search for formal structures with…
“…la fou soulage, guide, guérit:” Translations and Language in History
“Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” or “This is not a pipe.” Right? Two completely different statements strung together with two completely different intents by markedly different individuals. And, yet, here we are thinking that they offer the same meaning. Reading … Continue reading →
On Foucault – This Week’s “Glob”, Uhh…I mean Blog
In this week’s glob, and yes I did say glob, not blog, I was very befuddled by Foucault’s writing. Therefore this week’s blog will be my understanding (or lack thereof) of the enormous glob of information that was strewn across the articles this week. Needless to say, there are probably many fans of Foucault and […]
Foucault…Overcoming Contingencies, & History
“Foucault…provided detailed accounts of the lineages of both Western institutions and subjectivity. These genealogical accounts are carried out in a language and set of concepts that recognize themselves to be within the lineage that they describe; the descriptive accounts have a decentering effect on the values and forms of knowledge that give the lineage its […]
The Foucauldian Idea of “Relation”
“…one cannot be a ‘Foucauldian’ in the way once can be a Marxist or a Freudian,” and that is undoubtedly true. (O’Brien, p.46) This is not my first time to read Foucault but every time I read, I always have the same thought like O’Brien’s above. There are many approaches to “use” Foucault in topics, […]
Deconstructing Deconstructionism
As anticipated, Foucault was a challenge this week. Perhaps this was a self-fulfilling prophecy, as I had read a little of Foucault’s work before this class and had already formulated somewhat of a confused bias, but in any case, I definitely found myself bogged down trying to make sense out of what appeared to me […]
This is not a Blog about “This is not a Pipe”
Today I’m going to start this post with the thought process of an over-tired graduate student during her initial study of Foucault’s “This is not a Pipe.” (However, I promise this is not a blog about “This is not a … Continue reading →
So. Foucault. That Happened. I Think?
Um. WTF did I just (attempt to) read? Holy schnikes. For this reading, it can be summed up for me as “The present may also be analyzed as a point of transition toward the dawning of a new world” (What is Continue reading →
Oh Foucault…
Although I have read Michel Foucault in other classes (more so in the anthropology courses of my past), I still approached this week’s readings with a healthy amount of trepidation. Interestingly, I found myself pleasantly surprised with my reaction to Foucault this time around. Though immensely dense and at times overwhelmingly convoluted, I discovered that […]