“What I Am Is Defined by Who I Am”: Resistance in Bio-Power
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Weeks ago, we had touched on Foucault’s ideas of bio-power, but I feel it is only this week that these ideas are being played out, in primary sources and fiction. The last time I talked about bio-power was in relation to WWI and the “Keeping Fit to Fight” campaigns that promoted safer sexual activity in […]
“What I Am Is Defined by Who I Am”: Resistance in Bio-Power
Tags: bio-power, HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, power relations, resistance
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Kushner: Angels in America, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Mila Matveeva | Comments Off on “What I Am Is Defined by Who I Am”: Resistance in Bio-Power
Depressing to Optimistic
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Depressing to Optimistic Parts Four and Five of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality were quite an emotional rollercoaster. Foucault beings by discussing the “juridico-discursive” idea of power, and then criticizing it and explaining his own theory of power – though I found both ideas quite depressing. Foucault claims that the “juridico-discursive” idea of power underlies […]
Depressing to Optimistic
Tags: bio-power, deployment of sexuality, juridico-discursive, liberation, power, power over life, repression, repressive hypothesis, right of death, sexual regulation, Thunder Cats, truth
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Kaitlyn O'Hagan | Comments Off on Depressing to Optimistic
