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• Virvil: John Wray’s “Lowboy” (rev.)

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 128
  Wray, John, (2010), Lowboy, PicadorISBN 978-0-312-42933-1It’s astonishing, really, how far popular fiction steeped in philosophy or theory has come. Modernist and postmodernist fiction, despite the levity and ease that the latter brought to that kind of writing, was still explicitly (and difficultly) theoretic. ...
  10 hours ago

• Virvil: John Wray’s “Lowboy”

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 128
  Wray, John, (2010), Lowboy, PicadorISBN 978-0-312-42933-1It’s astonishing, really, how far popular fiction steeped in philosophy or theory has come. Modernist and postmodernist fiction, despite the levity and ease that the latter brought to that kind of writing, was still explicitly (and difficultly) theoretic. ...
  1 day ago

• Foucault and Society

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 525
  People reacted against the bourgeois dominated culture or what the bourgeoisie defined as cultural norms in the twenties and thirties and Foucault and Sartre were philosophers who spurred that reaction. Instead of just accepting what we observe in the natural sciences as truths, on the basis of cognition, he offered ...
  2 days ago

• A brief history of double entry book-keeping #6

  
  FCAblog — Authority: 433
  Episode 6 starts with the issue of employee costs, which Jolyon Jenkins portrays as "a headache for any manager." However, its all in a days work for a management accountant, and this episode focuses on the development of the discipline. David Oldroyd (Newcastle University) says that the idea of holding agents ...
  5 days ago

• Foucault on Relations of Power and Relations of Constraint: Is Chattel Slavery the Former, the Latter or Both?

  
  Per Caritatem — Authority: 448
  In his essay, “The Subject and Power,” Foucault defines the exercise of power as “a mode of action upon the actions of others.”  The exercise of power can be either positive or negative.  Considered from a positive point of view, it involves the “governing”—understood in the broadest sense as training, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Entente Cordiale: Anthropological and Natural Philosophical Cosmology

  
  Ether Wave Propaganda — Authority: 115
  Simon Schaffer’s “Natural Philosophy” in Ferment of Knowledge (1980) is an exhilarating piece by a 25-year-old scholar.  When I first looked at it on this blog, I gave my post the title “Schaffer Busts Out the Hickory” , suggesting that he had taken a wooden bat to the extant literature on the topic.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part II: Power, Subjectification and Resistance in Foucault

  
  Per Caritatem — Authority: 448
  In this post, I revisit (by way of Heller’s essay ) Foucault’s articulation of a power-diagram and discuss the differences between tactics and strategies.  Heller provides a helpful explanation of Foucault’s seemingly paradoxical claim, “power relations are both intentional and non-subjective.”  First, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Prophet Motive

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 132
  Is the real subject of Jacques Audiard’s film “A Prophet (Un Prophète),” which opens today and which Anthony Lane writes about in the magazine this week, the Panopticon ? That’s the prison, designed by the English thinker Jeremy Bentham, that Michel Foucault discusses at length in “Discipline and ...
  3 weeks ago

• towards the Klossowskian (Count de Rola) gesture, of a group subject: notes for The Ordinary Light, playscript in progress

  
  square white world — Authority: 128
  The ‘anthropomorphosis’ of Capital is complete when its fictitious character is generalised. - Giorgio Cesarano quoted in Tiqqun, Raw Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl , here - Balthus The point is that humans are simulacra much more vertiginous than the painted faces of deities. They are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part I: Power, Subjectification and Resistance in Foucault

  
  Per Caritatem — Authority: 448
  In his essay, “Power, Subjectification and Resistance in Foucault,” Kevin Jon Heller argues against common misreadings of central notions in Foucault’s thought.  For example, many scholars claim that Foucault’s understanding of power-relations leaves us with a wholly passive subject, in effect a non-agent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Defending the indefensible – II

  
  Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity — Authority: 125
  Some notes on the body and powerOn 1 March 1757 Damiens the regicide was condemned “to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris”, where he was to be “taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds”; then, [...]
  3 weeks ago

• "As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps..."

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 120
  “As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one...
  4 weeks ago

• "I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is..."

  
  Considering Lily — Authority: 120
  “I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and...
  6 weeks ago

• LMP: World Cup 2010 Edition – Uruguay vs. France

  
  Monkey's Wedding — Authority:
  Match 2 of this year’s World Cup is made slightly easier by having already picked one of the sides. France’s first appearance, however, emphasises how ridiculous a game this can be – how can you pick six ‘players’ from thousands of years of canonical literary history? How could one claim that Flaubert would ...
  6 weeks ago

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