How To Use Foucault In A Sentence
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While I think his ethical position is, if uninteresting, unexceptionable enough, his refusal to confront the political connection Foucault makes except with such bland dismissiveness is insufficient precisely because uninteresting.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'
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Heidegger's leftist acolytes, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, felt able to sideline his racist and genocidal beliefs while embracing his antihumanism.
The Guardian World News
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Indeed, this leads me to a major criticism of Foucault's postmodernism when applied to the media.
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Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explores how the prison is merely the centerpiece of a much larger carceral system, and that our schools, factories, military barracks, churches, etc, are all based on these same architectural and philosophical principles.
Printing: Education
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On Foucault's reading, the worker who criticises his boss uses parrhesia.
Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them | Nick Cohen
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With the advent of post-structuralism in the later 1970s, the attack on the idea of the self was rephrased in terms borrowed from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
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Drawing on themes from Michel Foucault, the team symbolizes its withdrawal of allegiance from the out-moded sociohistorical construct of power and authoritarianism implicit in the state of buoyancy by performing "The Death of Man" in an empty pool.
Olympic Notes
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Halperin crystallizes Foucault's definition of sexuality as "an apparatus for constituting human subjects" (How To 88).
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
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Foucault's genealogy proposes a new methodology about origin analysis and power analysis.
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Along the way, she considers the ontological paradox of self-invention and quotes Foucault.
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As Michel Foucault has explained, often ‘normal’ or ‘legitimate’ are first distilled by exposing what they are not.
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According to MichelFoucault's theory of discourse instigation, suppression definitely goes to an instigation.
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We want to encourage parrhesia-the Greek concept of fearless speech Foucault discusses.
Spirituality
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Like Foucault, Kittler diagnosed the present through what he called discourse analysis - the excavation of the underlying structure of human practices.
The Guardian World News
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What the term suggests to me is essentially the modern cinematic equivalent of the kind of appallingly grisly public spectacle recounted at great length by Foucault in the opening pages of Discipline and Punish (the whole horrifying passage can be read here), framed and presented for the audience's enjoyment (or whatever) as spectacle.
Archive 2009-06-14
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With the advent of post-structuralism in the later 1970s, the attack on the idea of the self was rephrased in terms borrowed from Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
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Thinkers such as Lyotard and Foucault who attempt to give the margins a voice are thus working at undermining this unitary image of the West, reducing its one monolithic history to a plurality of minor histories.
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What is ultimately of most significance in Foucault's work is this recognition of the constant struggles within the definitions of sexuality.
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Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
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What is ultimately of most significance in Foucault's work is this recognition of the constant struggles within the definitions of sexuality.
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But the film is less a policier than a post-Foucault case study of the criminal as social transgressor.
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I have silently assumed Foucault's earlier definition of "genealogy" in construing the term in this passage, firstly because nothing in the passage otherwise explicates the term.
Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality
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Related to this notion of surveillance and carceral institutional space is Foucault's notion of the panopticon, a mechanism for establishing social power.
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She asks feminist and other readers of Foucault to pragmatically judge his work on what it does—that is, on the transformative impact that it has on their lives.
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Cohn rejoins by pointing out that such an imagining cannot be discursive, because, for Foucault, discourse must be enforced across a single ontological plane.
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Therefore Foucault is concerned with issues like health, sexuality and reproduction and how these relate to the administration of management of populations.
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Write a brief essay on how Foucault conceives this coupling.
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Abulafia is also the nickname given by deuteragonist Jacopo Belbo to his home computer in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
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What is ultimately of most significance in Foucault's work is this recognition of the constant struggles within the definitions of sexuality.
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People aren't interested in deconstructing the intricacies of Foucaultian power structures in Thomas Pynchon novels -- they are interested in City of Heroes.
Of course it's hard -- if it wasn't hard, everyone would do it
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See Foucault on resemblance and similitude.
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Such success might seem strange, given that few people outside of ivory towers have even heard of Foucault, but Duncker's novel isn't some dry academic text that needs to be painstakingly deciphered.
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Derrida and Foucault's whole deconstructive enterprise might be seen as an exercise in animadversion on the Western cultural process of translation.
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Foucault's panopticon kept popping into my head, with the concentric circles of observation used for prisons and experiments.
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How is what Foucault called the "gaze" of the state being "renormalized" to make decidedly "old-fashioned" the kind of respect for civil liberties, including the necessity for a decisive congressional role in their diminution, displayed in Judge Taylor's opinioni and Professor Tribe's defense?
Balkinization
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Foucault's final words on the late-eighteenth-century transformation of the treatment of mental illness describe it as "that gigantic moral imprisonment which we are in the habit of calling, doubtless by antiphrasis, the liberation of the insane by Pinel and Tuke" (p. 278).
An Exchange with Michel Foucault
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This paper presents a new non-contact displacement sensor with diffraction grating metrology system based on an improved Foucault focus detection method.
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This analysis of incarceration in the Soviet Union, including the author's own experiences as a zek, called into question the moral foundations of the USSR Foucault examines the development of modern society's systems of incarceration
The Guardian World News
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Since Laing refused to view mental illness in biomedical/clinical terms, he has often been labelled as part of the so-called 'antipsychiatry' movement, alongside figures such as David Cooper, Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault.
Spiritofnow
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Personally, I'd like to see a paper contrasting Huizinga's magic circle with Foucault's notion of the heterotopia.
November 2007
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As Michel Foucault has explained, often ‘normal’ or ‘legitimate’ are first distilled by exposing what they are not.
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It also adds another facet to Loesberg's analysis by inviting us to consider the relationship between aesthetic self-distantiation and love for a particular thinker like Foucault, of the kind that Halperin champions in
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
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Foucault has many perorations about the nature of power.
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Against Sartre's blind consistency, Foucault's postmodern leftism substituted haphazard shifts, though keeping intact destructive political conclusions.
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The association traced by Fay between clothes and female agency offers a telling contrast to what Foucault describes as the interpretive techniques of confession.
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
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I believe ‘Foucault's Pendulum’ is Mr Eco's way of poking fun at the overly gullible whilst also having a sideswipe at conspiracy theories and generally showing off his vast knowledge.
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Secondly, your idea that such people swill wine at cocktail parties while listening to U2 and discussing Foucault is such an absurd caricature, an amalgamation of strawmen, that it makes you seem ridiculous and detracts from your critique of modernity and our culture. mim says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
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The institution of the period survey has ensured that this concept remains central to the distribution of cultural credentials, and literary cultivation has frequently been represented as Foucault represents genealogy: as a historical refraction of the self that locates a paradoxical sort of immortality in dispersion.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)
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Foucault's approach and analyses have also to some degree informed this work and for that reason alone deserve a critical appraisal.
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Foucault called it "de-subjectifying the subject.
Olympian Acceleration for the (Very Rich) Masses
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Underwood reconsiders Foucault's resistance to historical continuity in the light of the Romantic pedagogy that instituted the study of discrete literary periods; Pfau compares Charles Taylor's attack on the teleological systematization of liberal society as an economy, and what Taylor considers to be an illusory negative vision of "freedom" that shadows that systematization, with
Rei Terada
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Foucault's quote, curiously, is exactly applicable to the situation between Mr. Windschuttle and his postmodern rivals: he is a person from a strong cultural tradition, having trouble understanding the language of another culture's logic - in other words, trying to apprehend "a culture ... that does not distribute the multiplicity of existing things into any of the categories that make it possible for us to name, speak and think.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The dispute between Derrida and Foucault was less a question of text versus history than an argument about history itself.
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I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
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Thomas S. Kuhn used Bachelard's notion of "epistemological rupture" (coupure or rupture épistémologique) as re-interpreted by Alexandre Koyré to develop his theory of paradigm shifts; Althusser, Georges Canguilhem (his successor at the Sorbonne) and Michel Foucault also drew upon Bachelard's epistemology.
Archive 2009-07-01
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What is ultimately of most significance in Foucault's work is this recognition of the constant struggles within the definitions of sexuality.
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It offers an escape from the double bind of commentary pithily summarised by Foucault, in the passage I quoted just now.
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Let me return briefly to Foucault.
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There is no evidence that it was for Foucault, nor that he intended to suggest anything other than realization of the fact of observation as a critical necessity.
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Michel Foucault , The Archaeology of Knowledge; hereafter this text will be abbreviated as AK.
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He found a cab driven by a cheerful Haitian called Marcel Foucault, whose English was as thick as bouillabaisse.
MAMBO
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This situation reminds me of Foucault's notion of the panoptic, the all-seeing eye capable of watching all areas at once, thus ensuring compliance and control.
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It claims to have Michel Foucault as one of its "friends," and states that "it's time to free her eminence Judith Butler from intempestive, systematic and unappropriate quotations, misunderstanding and misinterpreting discourses. let's set Judith free. now.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Foucault's approach and analyses have also to some degree informed this work and for that reason alone deserve a critical appraisal.
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In his book Discipline and Punish Foucault discusses the process by which the prison became the ideal form of punishment in western society and the way this relates to the development of a larger "carceral system" - that imprisons us all.
Recommendations for Prison Reform
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Relying on Foucault, Crary charts the progression of the interiorization of perception from the discovery of the camera obscura to its use as a metaphor by
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
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By rejecting ‘the repressive hypothesis' Foucault encourages us to examine the incidence, resourcefulness, and polyvalence of power in fields previously regarded as free from its operation.
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And whereas Foucault sees the heterotopia as reflecting, inverting, and interpenetrating dominant spaces, Huizinga sees play spaces as more dependent on boundaries and the independent creation of a new social order.
CFP: Breaking the Magic Circle
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She takes issue with those who, like Freud or Foucault, essentialize the human body and its desires as some sort of transhistorical entity, yet use the male body as the standard.
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Using Foucault's analysis, how would one decide that Neo-Gothic chasubles are homosexual while Latin chasubles are not?
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I earlier said that Agamben, Foucault, and Derrida were "human dildoes.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger precedes Foucault in attempting to understand the historical conditionalitics of Being
