somewhere in the east: Who is Michel Foucault ？
When I was in college, I studied French culture and philosophy.I was eager to learn Michel Foucault's thought.Because he was a kind of philosofic hero in Japan. Today, I am not so facsinated with his thought.Because his way of thinking ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:25PM EST
Inverted Panoptic Surveillance « ICT4Accountability
In his book 'Discipline and Punish' (1977), one of the most influential theorizers of modern society, Michel Foucault, describes the panoptic prison as a metaphor for the power relations within modern society. The prison was originally ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 12:49PM EST
Hipster Runoff Exegesis: 9 March 2010: "THE ALT REPORT opens 'TIP ...
Michel Foucault famously adopted the concept as metaphor for the carceral society, in which ideological discipline operates regardless of the presence of overseers or punishers. The presence of the observer is instead always assumed. ...
Posted 03/10/2010 at 01:21AM EST
Muntz Library Features Book Display for Women's History Month 2010 ...
“Hailed as “one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature” by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault as being “remarkable for its rediscovering of texts and also for its study of feelings ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:40PM EST
» A Lesson in (Public) Sex Ed from Aaron Sleazy: Rob's Review of ...
If a line exists between Tucker Max and Charles Bukowski, Penthouse Letters and Michel Foucault, exhibitionism and self-improvement, then Aaron Sleazy straddles it. And, as his book recounts, it's not the only thing Sleazy's straddling. ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 02:00PM EST
The soul is the prison of the body. Let us sin then, and sin to infinity. The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of.
Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:52AM EST
Madness and civilization - felix's posterous
Madness and civilization. In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World ... By Michel Foucault. Loading mentions Retweet ...
Posted 03/09/2010 at 04:41AM EST
ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...
In France, the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons (GIP) was founded in 1971 by Jean-Marie Domenach, Michel Foucault and Pierre Vidal-Naquet to provide prisoners with a vehicle 'to speak for themselves' inside and outside prisons to ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST
ICOPA History – Excerpt from “The Moving Target of Penal ...
In the last chapter of Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault (1977) discusses 'the carceral'. He describes a network of power relations and technologies that “formed first the immediate surroundings of the prison, then spread farther ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 11:41PM EST
Is Penguin Trying to Rewrite History?
... Hell's Angels (Hunter S. Thompson), Random House, 1966; High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Gollancz, 1995; The History of Sexuality: Volume 1 (Michel Foucault), Gallimard, 1976; Holding the Man (Timothy Conigrave), McPhee Gribble, 1995 ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 08:10AM EST
Kevin Immanuel Art Theory: Artist Description, Christoph- both ...
Paul Rabinow editor, Translated by Robert Hurley and Others, Michel Foucault: Ethics/ Subjectivity and Truth: Essential works of Foucault 1954- 1984 Volume I,: The New York Press, © 1984 USA, from the essay, Polemics, Politics, ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 03:07AM EST
Jason Freudenrich: The Democrats Panopticon
The constant surveillance or the idea of an individual thinking he or she is under constant surveillance directly coincides with Michel Foucault's “Discipline and Punishment” when he speaks about Bentham's Panopticon. ...
Posted 03/08/2010 at 01:25AM EST
Philosophy, the talk on a cereal box - Sherman's Cowlick
The article at one point refers to a Michel Foucault. I got curious as if he was any relation to the French physicist. Not recalling the man's first name, I looked up Foucault's Pendulum on Wiki, what do I get but a 1988 novel by ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 11:48PM EST
Cultural Studies and Literature Blog: “Bare Life”, “Bio-politics ...
Michel Foucault states that “the ancient right to take life or let live was replaced by a power to foster life or disallow it to the point of death.”[10] Following Foucault's definition about modern and ancient forms of power, ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:49PM EST
Theory Discussion Group NUIM: From Foucault to Papadopoulos
The three theoretical shifts and their social situatedness will be illustrated through a rereading of some ideas from Lev S. Vygotsky's late theory, Michel Foucault's account of government and Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy. ...
Posted 03/07/2010 at 10:27PM EST
Michel Foucault and Purity Balls
On March 4, we discussed the intersection of Michel Foucault and sexuality in society, specifically concerning purity balls. For further information on purity balls, I highly recommend Jessica Valenti's book, The Purity Myth, ...
Posted 03/06/2010 at 01:44AM EST
Michel Foucault and Purity Balls « of Heart and Mind
On March 4, we discussed the intersection of Michel Foucault and sexuality in society, specifically concerning purity balls. For further information on purity balls, I highly recommend Jessica Valenti's book, The Purity Myth, ...
Posted 03/06/2010 at 01:44AM EST
Critical Reflection 3: the notion of discourse
In Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). London: Routledge. Agence France Press (2010) Jesus was gay: Elton John. Agence-France Press. Retrieved February 21, 2010 from Google News website: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 07:17PM EST
Critical Reflection 3: the notion of discourse « Pennies & Panopticons
The Subject and Power. In H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (pp. 208-26). Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. Mills, S. (2003). Power/Knowledge. In Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 07:17PM EST
Advances in the History of Psychology » Blog Archive » Special ...
Working on your self with a brain device can be seen as a contemporary form of Michel Foucault's 'technologies of the self'. Foucault described how since antiquity people had used techniques such as reading manuscripts, listening to ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 04:39PM EST
Blog About Politics Scandals » Research 4 The Internet Power ...
As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge are like two sides of the same coin. There are however many other approaches and research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge production in affecting and ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 10:16AM EST
Power/Knowledge and Blind Patriotism « Benevolence and Beyond
In S. Mill, Michel Foucault (pp.67-79). London: Routledge. Sperling, E. (2004). The Tibet-China conflict: History and polemics. Washington DC: East-west centre. Washington. Wang, Z. (2008). National humiliation, history education, ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 03:35AM EST
Alexandro Santana at at Besharat Gallery - artnet Magazine
His exhibition title lends a clue: "Haecceitia: Homage à Michel Foucault." Plumbing the catalogue essay, it becomes clear that Santana is seeking not decorative effect or personal expression, but rather is making a stab at painterly ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 01:29AM EST
Abstract Resistance @ The Walker Art Center
Anytime an event is organized around an idea by French philosopher/historian Michel Foucault, there's bound to be some confusion. Suppose, for instance, that you were... Anytime an event is organized around an idea by French ...
Posted 03/05/2010 at 12:18AM EST
COURSE OUTLINE: San Francisco State University
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality. Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (skim the book, read entries in your area of interest closely and pursue some of the ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 07:28PM EST
Christian Child Abuse: The Vatican's Nietzschean Moment
When Michel Foucault developed his influential theory of power he identified the Christian confessional as the template utilised by later forms of political rule. 'I must be good, or else' best describes the system of internalised ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 03:20PM EST
SpeEdChange: How Social Networking Liberates Teachers
From Michel Foucault I bring the idea that we best observe human action by watching what they actually do in a conceptual transaction space. That "space" - the "playing field" on which we operate, is shaped by the limitations we have ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 01:45PM EST
Call for papers - Power & Knowledge 2010 conference
As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge are like two sides of the same coin. There are however many other approaches and research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge production in affecting and ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 12:23PM EST
a withdrawn application (or why i want to be “an established ...
6.discipline and punish, michel foucault. admittedly, it is not his best work. my interest in the body and its role in theory is what drew me to this book. disciplinary practices and the discourse around them do more than just punish ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 08:07AM EST
It's Theory, of course it makes no sense
In “Discipline and Punish,” Michel Foucault describes the concept of “power,” and asserts that it is something that is “dispersed throughout society.” His conclusion maintains that “the citizens of Western democracies act as their own ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 04:56AM EST
He was born in Romania and grew up in Israel, where he translated Michel Foucault and J.-F. Lyotard into Hebrew. He contributes regularly to the blog, "Jews Sans Frontieres" and is active in the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network ...
Posted 03/04/2010 at 04:08AM EST