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the-everqueen · 1 year ago

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re: cocoposting, you might be like, "horse, isn't foucault's 'care of the self' about classical attitudes around (homo)sexuality?" and you're right, it's not about america at all, except i've done a LOT of early american history shit (happens when you write a diss chapter on 'hamilton') and foucault weirdly clarified for me how 18th c anglos understood sex/relationships as this extension of their understanding of what "republics" signified and the rights of the (State-sanctioned/legible) Human

#there's also some sylvia wynter doing a lot of heavy lifting for me in here #but the point is that...it's less about the REALITY of the ancient world and more about how a predominantly protestant english-speaking #''world'' UNDERSTOOD those texts and translations and what they fixed them to mean in relation to OTHER ancient texts #like the christian bible circa kjv #which is all to say at some point ''corinthian'' stops signifying the ancient city of corinth and whatever cultural practices he might #reflect and instead OUR perception of ''corinth'' which is heavily based on english translations of the pauline epistles #and classical texts that have gone through SEVERAL rounds of translation and debate #so that at the end of the day plato is saying what you want him to say #i.e. justification for colonial separatism and u.s. white supremacy #posts that are like. for alf.

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