Post-digestion
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
The past (two) week’s class was very helpful in cementing the main points of Foucault’s concepts about power (hooray for charts). During the same week, in a gender and society class, I was introduced to intersectional theory via the text, “Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter” by Margaret L. Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins. […]
Post-digestion
Tags: Foucault, Power, Power-Relations
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The Powers That Be
Monday, February 13th, 2012
This week’s reading was definitely heavy with concepts. I keep on restarting this posting and then chucking it because I decide to change what to focus on… Strangely enough, I found the second part of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality easier to digest (probably due to the way he was structuring the text). A […]
The Powers That Be
Tags: Foucault, Power
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Scientia Sexualis
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
In the third part of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault introduces the concepts of scientia sexualis, or “telling the truth of sex which are geared to a form of knowledge-power,” and its counterpart, ars erotica, or telling the truth of sex from “pleasure itself” (57-58). Foucault argues that Western civilization has adopted the scientia […]
Scientia Sexualis
Tags: Confession, Discourse, Foucault, Scientific
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