A response to my post about Jodi Dean can be found here. A comment on that post raises issues about my use of the term emancipation and I will continue to discuss this matter with my supervisor. I have so much to read and learn about emancipation. I may just stick with a Foucauldian analysis [...]
I’m having trouble with the term personal emancipation and the way it is so related to Kantian notions of emancipatory struggle. Perhaps something more along the lines of ‘sites of resistance’ which refers back to Foucault’s Power and the Subject and possibly to some of Deleuze’s work might work better. I want to demonstrate struggle, [...]
Whilst I agree that most people think that what is written on the Internet lacks credibility, it is not a view shared by a growing number of academics. Rather they see a substantial and growing body of work that is highly credible, highly reliable, and a valuable contribution to knowledge. Mortensen, T. and J. Walker. [...]
I may have posted this link before but this scholarly review of blogs, quoting Habermas and Bourdeiu is excellent reading and relates directly to my research. In fact I might do a review of it at some point soon
I’m starting to think that I may need to lose the word “emancipation” from my thesis question. It tends to drag the research back to the Enlightenment and struggle. Since then much has been written about the creation of the self and subjectivity which has moved understandings beyond a static self and emancipatory struggle to [...]
Just read a book chapter written by Foucault (1998) on the subject of new spaces. He describes the way that looking in a mirror creates an image of the self in a place the self is not, but the means for the creation of the image – the mirror – is real. He describes “heterotopias”, [...]
Please note: this post is under construction whilst I read the article below. This notice will be removed when it’s complete. The subject and power Why study power? The question of the Subject Foucault states that it his intention to establish the historicity of the modes by which individuals become the subjects of power. Foucault [...]