Category Archives for Foucault
Last week of readings !! Yeahhh !!! Oh wait….there is more to read….Ahhh the Second paper’s readings … :/
This is how my readings started this week. Fortunately, I was able to save the moment by thinking about the new episode of the Walking Dead!! Yes The Walking Dead is going to make everything sound better. Little did I know that the Walking Dead WAS going to make everything better. As I was reading […]
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Somebody’s watching me
Power, control, discipline, punishment… These are words that have been mentioned or at least somehow form part of most of the topics we have seen in the course. For instance, in Marxism, we talked about ruling ideas that serve to … Continue reading → Continue reading
From repression to multiplication: a discourse of sexuality by Foucault
As pointed out by Foucault, since the nineteen century we have witnessed a multiplication of expressions of sexualities, especially of irregular sexualities, ranging from homosexuality who has certainly earned and developed its own discourse, to the once taboo topic: the sexuality of children, in short, all the forms of perverse sexualities that had been repressed […]
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“The Death of an Author” and “what is an author?”
I wanted to start out by noticing that almost all of us had a reaction to the Barthes’s text “The Death of an Author” and like most of you I have also decided to write on this but also on Foucault’s “what is an author?”. I started by reading Barthes’s “The Death of an Author” […]
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The Éffet Foucault
Foucault had me thinking in his highly abstract «Archeology of knowledge». After a few hours of reading and re-reading it, both in French and in English, I am still not sure of what he was saying. Here is what I think I understood: The discourse is a social performative entity and its unification takes place […]
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