The Foucault Society at CSA (March 18, Berkeley) « Foucault blog
About the Foucault Society: The Foucault Society is an independent, non-profit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within a contemporary context. ...
Posted 03/13/2010 at 02:23AM EST
Ebook Attitudes and Representations of Dietician: A Comprehensive ...
It seems to us that the notion which relates most to it is what Michel Foucault refers to as “self-preoccupation”: “A reasonable existence cannot follow its normal course without 'health practice... which forms... the permanent frame of ...
Posted 03/13/2010 at 02:02AM EST
New Ways of Teaching Canadian History « Andrew Smith's Blog
ActiveHistory.ca has published a piece by Steven Maynard of Queen's University on how he uses the ideas of Michel Foucault in teaching his first-year students Canadian history. “What does a queer, sadomasochistic philosopher have to do ...
Posted 03/13/2010 at 01:30AM EST
Base Infinity: The Hyperreality of the Mind's Eye: agressive ...
Cybernetics, Chaosophy, Chaos Theory, Chaos Magick, Theosophy, Occult, Sacred Geometry, Fractals, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Joseph Campbell, Kenneth Rexroth, William Blake, Gilles Deleuze, Schizophrenia, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, ...
Posted 03/13/2010 at 12:29AM EST
Your Face This Spring in One Week « Conversational Reading
Here?s the winners at Three Percent.... http://bit.ly/8Y8RaE [link]; RT @ubuweb: Film of Jean Baudrillard: "The Violence of the Image" (85 min, 2004): http://is.gd/a9jA9 [link]; "Give Ryan credit. It?s difficult to raise taxes on 90 ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 06:59PM EST
Slavoj Žižek's advice to you: 'Learn, learn, & learn ...
Embedding, unfortunately, is currently disabled for this clip; but see here for a Question & Answer session with Slavoj Žižek, held at the University of.
Posted 03/12/2010 at 06:00PM EST
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science ...
Here, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the writings of today's most fashionable postmodern thinkers. From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 05:34PM EST
Differences & Repetitions: Why "postscipt?"
Now, I realize that Deleuze frames the essay as a response -- or really a critical rejoinder of sorts -- to Michel Foucault's explication of the "disciplinary society" in Discipline and Punish. It may well be, therefore, that Deleuze ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 05:09PM EST
Differences & Repetitions: Why "postscript?"
Now, I realize that Deleuze frames the essay as a response -- or really a critical rejoinder -- to Michel Foucault's explication of the "disciplinary society" in Discipline and Punish. It may well be, therefore, that Deleuze offers the ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 05:09PM EST
The Valve - A Literary Organ | “what-have-you intriguing subject”
“You hear a great deal about Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Homi Bhabha, Walter Benjamin, Gloria Anzaldua, and other thinkers who were already staples of “Introductions to Literary Theory” courses back in the mid-1990s. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:44PM EST
Baudrillard and the Battle of Marjah - Chasing Dragons
... I can't help but think of the following passage from Jean Baudrillard's essay on Simulacra and Simulations: The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:41PM EST
On why consumerism is not a conspiracy « City of God
(Another thing they made obvious to me is that the story of The Matrix is really an attempted parable of Jean Baudrillard's thought, though apparently Baudrillard doesn't think it was successful.): ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:28PM EST
toward a post-constructivist synthesis (immanence)
In part, it has also come through the work of key theorists in the humanities, including some of the most influential philosophers of the past century (such as Peter Singer, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Alasdair MacIntyre, ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:23PM EST
Immanent Terrain: Forces at work: The Poetry of Ammons and Frost
Saishigo: What follows will be a collective blog dedicated to mapping a number of connections between the writings of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the work of various media theorists, and contemporary art practice. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 03:26PM EST
In Defence of Alain Badiou- Riposte « Le Singe de Darwin
In Defence of Alain Badiou- Riposte. March 12, 2010 by Nada Cabani. You can add your signature to Riposte (French & English versions). Possibly related posts: (automatically generated). 'When everything is possible, nothing is'. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 02:48PM EST
PA Editors Blog: Palestine Inside Out (or Sadistic Colonialism ...
(one of Michel Foucault's more straightforward insights). Fourthly, the Oslo years (1994-2000) represented Israel's attempt to "outsource the occupation" by turning the newly created Palestinian Authority into a "sub-contractor. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 02:03PM EST
PA Editors Blog: Palestine Inside Out (or Sadistic Colonialism ...
(one of Michel Foucault's more straightforward insights). Fourthly, the Oslo years (1994-2000) represented Israel's attempt to "outsource the occupation" by turning the newly created Palestinian Authority into a "sub-contractor. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 02:03PM EST
PA Editors Blog: Palestine Inside Out (or Sadistic Colonialism ...
Taking his cue from Foucault and the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, Gordon analyzes Israel's controlling apparatuses and practices in terms of three fundamental modes of power: "disciplinary, bio-, and sovereign. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 02:03PM EST
kostis velonis: The Velvet Philosophical Revolution
We were entering the peaceful, postmodern Promised Land, where great heroes, great dangers, great peoples, and great goals would all disappear, as Jean-François Lyotard, author of The Postmodern Condition, notoriously argued. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 01:31PM EST
Conflicting Logics: Speed and the Moral Imagination « Ortus Memoria
[3] Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Societies of Control,” October 59, Winter 1992, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp.3-7: http://roundtable.kein.orge/node/541. [4] John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 01:26PM EST
Erratic Thinking: Foucault and Power
Michel Foucault was one of the most important philosophers/social theorists of the twentieth century. In this weeks Erratic Thinking we will be discussing how he conceives of power relations within society; how he advocates a move away ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 11:27AM EST
Bring Back the Mass Market Paperback! « Conversational Reading
Here?s the winners at Three Percent.... http://bit.ly/8Y8RaE [link]; RT @ubuweb: Film of Jean Baudrillard: "The Violence of the Image" (85 min, 2004): http://is.gd/a9jA9 [link]; "Give Ryan credit. It?s difficult to raise taxes on 90 ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 11:05AM EST
Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek - The Distance Learning
The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Slavoj Žižek to Google's New York office to discuss his latest book, “Violence”. From Wikipidea: “Slavoj Žižek is a Post-Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 10:49AM EST
Radical Theory Berlin: Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou ...
Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou vs Deleuze! Gilles Deleuze, 'What is the Event' chapter, in The Fold. Available at http://a.aaaarg.org. And: Alain Badiou 'The Event in Deleuze'. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 09:15AM EST
Radical Theory Berlin: Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou ...
Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou vs Deleuze! Gilles Deleuze, 'What is the Event' chapter, in The Fold. Available at http://a.aaaarg.org. And: Alain Badiou 'The Event in Deleuze'. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 09:15AM EST
Black Lab: An Evening With(out) Alain Badiou. Thurs 25th March.
I'm going to organise an evening on Thurs 25th March where we listen to a lecture by philosopher Alain Badiou which is called 'The Subject of Art'. It introduces some of his ideas about art, the event, trace and the production of ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 08:53AM EST
"Méfiez-vous du rêve de l'autre, parce que si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l'autre, vous êtes foutu..." Gilles Deleuze. Click on image to view at full size. Posted by Eugene Costa aka Hopalong EAC at 8:25 PM ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:25AM EST
Next Year Country: An "Economic Guernica" for Greece
2008 never happened, the late Jean Baudrillard might say. Anti-financial populism of Merkel, Lagarde, and Sarkozy (as well as Tremonti) has shown of what stuff it is made. A makeshift product, it is mixed up with the myopia of French as ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:11AM EST
Justin E. H. Smith: 'Animal' as Category: Some Practical Consequences
Michel Foucault, Surveillir et punir. Naissance de la prison. Paris, Gallimard, 1975. Claude Lévi-Strauss, La pensée sauvage. Paris, 1962. Marcell Mauss and Emile Durkheim, De quelques formes primitives de classification. Paris, 1902. ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 04:01AM EST
Film and Literature...And Some Woody Allen Flair: Jeremy Benthan's ...
Michel Foucault uses Bentham's design in her studies. Foucault says it is what keeps us in order. Example: A parent spanks a child, an observer sees it and says something. Now the parent is more cautious of his or her actions because ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 01:47AM EST
My Post-Argentine Life: Indulge me for a moment.
Every few pages of Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, I write W T F in big bold letters? I alternate this with "F MY LIFE" scrawled down the side of the page. Once, I got so mad I scribbled across the whole ...
Posted 03/12/2010 at 01:29AM EST