Archive for the ‘February 5’ Category
Language & Gender
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
One aspect of Foucault’s work that particularly interested me was the tremendous emphasis placed on the power of language. It is important to recognize the influence language holds over both impressions of the present and recollections of the past – as a filter for the human worldview, it regulates taboos, determines social climes, and passes […]
Language & Gender
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Sexuality and the Multiplying Bulls-eye
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
In his History of Sexuality, Foucault provides us with a new accountability for the broadness of our perversions. He grants the individual and the society a space for discussion, unbound by singular form or direction. Noting that the trajectory of sexuality is non-unilateral –the same goes for the discourse surrounding it– Foucault dissects the untenable […]
Sexuality and the Multiplying Bulls-eye
Tags: Foucault, History of Sexuality, Peversion, Repression
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Beyonce, Queen of the “Other” Victorians
Monday, February 4th, 2013
This evening, Beyonce and her intense thigh action ruined my efforts to finish my submission in time, but it provided me with fantastic context for understanding Foucault’s repressive hypothesis and his epistemology on human sexuality. As I saw America’s Sweetheart gyrate relentlessly amid the backdrop of captivating pyrotechnics, dazzling projection screens and an army of […]
Beyonce, Queen of the “Other” Victorians
Tags: Beyonce, epistemology, Foucault, Michel Foucault, Thighs
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The Internet as a Tool for the Exchange and Creation of Power
Monday, February 4th, 2013
The internet as it now stands, serves as a tool for accelerating the proliferation and diversification of special sexual knowledges, identities, and roles. Fitting perfectly into the framework of power Michel Foucault describes in The History of Sexuality, pornography and social media have transformed the internet into an unprecedentedly effective tool for surveillance, confession, and […]
The Internet as a Tool for the Exchange and Creation of Power
Tags: Foucault, Internet, porn, Power, social media
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The Discourse of Sexuality in Modern Times
Monday, February 4th, 2013
One of the issues that I believe needs to be addressed in Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality is the divergence in the ways sexuality is viewed, depending on geographical region and religious pockets. As we mentioned in class, many individuals feel that barriers which bar sex from being discussed freely and without any sense […]
The Discourse of Sexuality in Modern Times
Tags: Discourse, Foucault, Repression
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The Root of Sexual Inhibition
Monday, February 4th, 2013
I always find it hard to discuss philosophy because of its digressive nature – as soon as you answer one question, you realize that there are a million other questions you need to ask in order to come close to “truth”. And even then that truth is subjective, as it could change depending on the […]
The Root of Sexual Inhibition
Tags: Foucault, History of Sexuality, Sexual Inhibition
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We Speak the Sanatorium
Monday, February 4th, 2013
Sam Barnes The opening verse of the Tao Te Ching, rendered here through translation and thousands of years after-the-fact, announces that “the way that can be spoken is not the perennial Way.” Real encounter with life, whether it be in its social, spiritual, or societal aspect, lies just beneath our tongues. And yet the power […]
We Speak the Sanatorium
Tags: Foucault, Mythology, Nature, Science
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Power, Pleasure and Permission: The Repressive Hypothesis
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
There is nothing more delightfully frustrating than reading a book that forces all my preconceived notions about a topic into oblivion. I had long assumed that, until recently, society repressed sexuality, giving rise to hatred and embarrassment over the subject. Foucault argues against the theory of repression and claims that discourse on sex was actually […]
Power, Pleasure and Permission: The Repressive Hypothesis
Tags: Foucault, Power, Repression
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Who has the power?
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
I think it is important to point out the seemingly intrinsic differences between Western and Eastern attitudes towards sex. Truly, both are tied to power relations however this manifests differently in both hemispheres. Foucault mentions ars erotica as opposed to scientia sexualis that is centered on confession and discourse of sex. I was thinking of […]
Who has the power?
Tags: church, Foucault, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, Power, taoism
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