March 30th, 2012
March 23rd, 2012
Foucaultism of the day — ‘Empirico-transcendental doublet’
March 9th, 2012
Truth always has a price; no access to truth without ascesis
On the genealogy of ethics
Penance is not nominal but dramatic: to prove suffering, to show shame, to make visible humility and exhibit modesty — these are the main features of punishment. Penitence in early Christianity is a way of life acted out at all times by accepting the obligation to disclose oneself.
The technologies of the self
The new concern with self, involved a new experience of self. The new form of the experience of self is to be seen in the first and second century when introspection becomes more and more detailed. A relation developed between writing abs vigilance. Attention was paid to nuances of life, mood, and reading, and the experience of oneself was intensified and widened by virtue of this act of writing. A whole field of experience opened which earlier was absent.
Foucault 1988 the technologies of the self
November 24th, 2011
For an interesting application of Foucault’s ideas through the study of food and nutrition in modern society. Check out this book:
‘Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating’ by John Coveney
For an in-depth review of the book copy&paste to download a pdf here:
rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/download/904/921
October 5th, 2011
This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded, in which an uninterrupted work of writing links the centre and periphery, in which power is exercised with division, according to a continuous hierarchical figure, in which each individual is constantly located, examined and distributed among the living beings, the sick and the dead - all this constitutes a compact model of the disciplinary mechanism.
- Discipline and Punish Chp. 3
