Super-Cultural Constructs
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Here is the compiled slideshow for my amateur photoshoot at the the Museum of Sex. Super-Cultural Constructs The first class discussion on Foucault left me reeling, because I could not understand how I had missed or completely misinterpreted some of his most emphasized points. Granted, reading on a crowded train doesn’t help, but neither does […]
Super-Cultural Constructs
Tags: discourse, essentialism and queer theory, identity, image, museum of sex, propriety, queer culture, technology
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Self in Public
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Michel Foucault proposes in the opening parts of his History of Sexuality that there is a direct correlation between the repression of sexuality and increased discourse on sexuality, including, ironically enough, discourse on the repression of sexuality. This idea is represented in social, political, and scientific terms. It seems likely that, as long as organic, […]
Self in Public
Tags: discourse, identity, propriety, selfhood
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