Posts Tagged ‘Foucault’
The Androgynous Author
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
In last week’s class, Lee proposed a great question that we didn’t talk too much about, so I’ve decided to use it as the launch point for this week’s readings (particularly that of the last two books of Middlesex). The question was something along these lines: Is it important for an author to have an […]
The Androgynous Author
Tags: androgyny, Foucault, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Scientia-Sexualis, Truth
Posted in May 7, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | No Comments »
Incest: The Universal Taboo
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Before I started reading the first two books of Middlesex, I automatically assumed I would be writing a blog post about the nature of being born intersex and societal labels and the prejudices that arise because of those labels, etc. But as I started reading the novel, I was shocked to see how little of […]
Incest: The Universal Taboo
Tags: Foucault, incest, Middlesex, taboo
Posted in April 30, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | 1 Comment »
Sexual Darwinism
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Walking trough the animal sex exhibit in MoSex, I noticed one wall close to the entrance dedicated to Charles Darwin. This was, aside from the artist’s statement, the only purely conceptual panel in the exhibit. Darwin, who lived during the Victorian era, is widely credited as the founder of the theory of evolution through natural […]
Sexual Darwinism
Tags: Darwin, Evolution, Foucault, MoSex, Museums, Natural Selection
Posted in Eli Bierman, March 12 | 3 Comments »
Science & Religion
Monday, February 18th, 2013
For as long as the two have existed, the worlds of science and religion have been at war. It is not because of mutual hatred or a desire to dominate human consciousness (although I’m sure this plays some part in certain battles). Rather, it is that the two lines of thought are constantly contradicting each […]
Science & Religion
Tags: Foucault, Peiss, Power-Relations, Religion, Science, The Scarlet Letter
Posted in February 19, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | 3 Comments »
The Biological Template
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
The development of human intellectual capability has produced a wider range of emotions than perhaps we even have names for. Our transcendental complexities and desires have a need to be resolved that far outstrips Nature’s faculties for maintaining equilibrium in the world. In The Social Construction of Sexuality Jeffrey Weeks comments on the intrinsic […]
The Biological Template
Tags: Biology, China, Economics, Foucault, Power, Power Dynamic, Sexuality
Posted in February 14, Rachel Kisty | No Comments »
The Physics of Power
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Although I’m not a scientist (really, really not a scientist), I found it helpful to conceptualize the ideas that Foucault presents on power in “Part IV: The Deployment of Sexuality” by relating them to some basic laws of physics. Foucault’s claim that power is “the multiplicity of force relations immanent in the sphere in which […]
The Physics of Power
Tags: Foucault, History of Sexuality, law of conservation of energy, laws of motion, physics, Power
Posted in February 14, Sophia Curran | 1 Comment »
Finding the Faults in Foucault
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Reading the essays by Weeks and Norton both came as a bit of a shock to me after finishing Foucault’s treatise on sexuality. Foucault has developed such a comprehensive theory, but it seems to me as if neither Weeks nor Norton really knows where to place it. Foucault establishes a framework for understanding how power […]
Finding the Faults in Foucault
Tags: Culture, Foucault, Power, Queer, Sex v. Sexuality, Theory
Posted in Eli Bierman, February 14 | 1 Comment »
Text and Power
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
I was excited to read Foucault’s assertion that power is an exchange, because that was a point I made in our first class discussion. Of course it’s an exchange – you can’t influence something without something to influence. I think it’s a satisfyingly balanced worldview, and in a way, it reminds me of the way […]
Text and Power
Tags: Foucault
Posted in February 14 | 3 Comments »
Sex vs. Sexuality
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Whenever I want to infuriate myself, I like to go read the Yahoo comments on various articles concerning LGBT issues. Inevitably, there will be a comment along the lines of “i’m sick of hering about gay ppl! i don’t want to no about wut ur doing in ur bedroom!” and I find myself shaking my […]
Sex vs. Sexuality
Tags: Foucault, Norton, Peiss, sex, Sexuality, social constructs, Weeks
Posted in February 14, Nadia Cook-Loshilov | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in February 5, Sophia Curran | No Comments »