Correction: The following post refers to Lois McNaly and should properly read Lois McNay. My apology to the author. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In the book, Foucault, Lois McNaly (1994, p. 149) critiques Michel Foucault’s notion of aestheticism or the aesthetics of the self/existence as being overly reliant on the heroization of the self. Foucault utilised Baudelaire the [...]
I’ve been reading The Political Mapping of Cyberspace by Jeremy Crampton (2003) after finding a comment about one of my posts on Jeremy’s blog. Jeremy’s comment lead me to begin an exploration of the terms “hupomnemata” (self-writing) and “parrhesia” (frank and fearless speech, particularly spoken against the powerful) (p. 107). This post, therefore, is an [...]
Struggle and resistance – the self-expression of a free subject – are inevitable wherever and whenever power is exercised (Smart, 1985). In the context of blogging this concept is important to keep in mind. In the case of Heather B. Armstrong, the struggle began before she was fired whereby she attempted to obfuscate the identities [...]
I’ve just met with my supervisor and what came out of that meeting was a few ideas – lots in fact- of the direction my thesis could go. So here are my thoughts in very raw form and quite unedited. We started out with what I meant be emancipation and my answer was that I [...]
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, [...]
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”, [...]
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