Posts Tagged ‘Foucault’
A Girl’s Guide to Happiness (As Seen on TV)
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Hey everyone! Here’s my video and write up. I’ll miss our wonderful class!! Originally, I intended to create a visual representation of the deployment of sexuality described in Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. I wanted to display the ways in which different discourses in the media have represented sexuality and influenced me […]
A Girl’s Guide to Happiness (As Seen on TV)
Tags: Foucault, Gender, Performativity, Sexuality
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Biopower with a capital B
Monday, May 7th, 2012
According to Michel Foucault, “biopower” emerged as the deployment of alliance and its complementary sovereign power over death (to allow or disallow life) shifted to the deployment of sexuality and accompanying power over life on the individual bodily level and on a larger population level (138-139). Foucault continues with that this power over life uses […]
Biopower with a capital B
Tags: Ambiguity, Complexity, Foucault, hermaphrodite, Middlesex, Power, Scientific
Posted in May 8, Vita Xie | No Comments »
Directions to the Inside
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
I think maybe all of the gender theory I have been reading for another class has gotten to me because I found myself increasingly frustrated with Cal’s characterization of gender and sex. I also, however, don’t have a solution for the ways in which society in general is stuck in the binary of male or […]
Directions to the Inside
Tags: Foucault, Identity, Middlesex, Power-Relations
Posted in May 8, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Deconstructing “The Norm”
Monday, April 30th, 2012
So sorry for the late post!! Finals time is starting to take over! I am absolutely loving Middlesex. I think it’s amazing that Eugenides is able to take such a powerful taboo right from the very beginning and make us (well at least me) root for the characters involved. Lefty and Desdemona’s relationship has all […]
Deconstructing “The Norm”
Tags: Foucault, Identity, incest, Middlesex, Social Constructionist, taboos
Posted in May 1, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Cultural contradictions in Middlesex
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
As I was reading Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, I thought how it should have won an award for its poetic use of language, and supreme storytelling. Lo and behold I look at the cover and discover that the book had won the Pulitzer Prize. In Middlesex, Foucault’s subjectivity of bodies takes on a new element. What […]
Cultural contradictions in Middlesex
Tags: Foucault, subjectivity of bodies, taboos
Posted in May 1, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The first time I heard about Angels in America was when my ninth grade English class read The Laramie Project. At the time, the play was an unapproachable feat of the struggle to be gay in America, and the AIDS epidemic. I didn’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole because I was afraid […]
Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, death, Foucault, Homosexuality, Identity, power-knowledge, Power-Relations
Posted in April 24, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Agency and the Limitations of Claiming an Identity
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
I saw Angels in America performed last year and reading the plays has been an entirely new experience. Reading the plays as literary pieces has opened up opportunities to carefully examine the many meanings within lines or within single words. This course has influenced my perceptions about a number of things, but Foucault’s discussions of […]
Agency and the Limitations of Claiming an Identity
Tags: Agency, Angels in America, Confession, Foucault, Identity, Kushner, Power-Relations
Posted in April 24, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Constructing Sexuality
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
After visiting the Museum of Sex in combination with reading Lolita and this weeks documents I have noticed a strong trend in sexuality -the attempt to construct some ideal that arises from an illusion/fantasy. In the museum I was struck by the simulator in the BDSM exhibit on the second floor. This sort of “create […]
Constructing Sexuality
Tags: Fantasy, Foucault, Lolita, Power-Relations, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
So That’s What the Victorians Did
Monday, March 12th, 2012
My notion of the Victorian lifestyle has been shattered. Gone are the images of couples cold to one another in bed, and a society as tight as the petticoats the women wore. Replace it with sexually charged men and women who were not abashed to share their feelings with one another, and radical thinkers espousing […]
So That’s What the Victorians Did
Tags: Discourse, Female Friendship, Foucault, Peiss, Scientia-Sexualis, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 13, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Overwhelming Deployment
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
At the end of our discussion last week, Professor Quinby prompted us to think about how Foucault’s notion of the deployment of sexuality shows up in our readings. I want to focus primarily on this weeks essays as I found them really interesting and a good springboard for discussion about the Scarlet Letter in class. […]
Overwhelming Deployment
Tags: Cott, Foucault, Juridico-Discursive, Religion, Sexuality, The Deployment of Sexuality, The Scarlet Letter, Victorian Era
Posted in March 6, Uncategorized, Whitney Porter | No Comments »