#michel foucalt

[stargir1z]

"Postmodernism and the Place of Nostalgia in Ingeborg Bachmann's Franza Fragment" by Heidi Schlipphacke

[moonbeam-murmurs]

I don't say the things I say because they are what I think, I say them as a way to make sure they no longer are what I think.

[joraro97]

[linfernomio]

a girl had to write a review for a philosophical book as a part of her exam. 3 killed 7 injured

[thesiltverses]

Faulkner once asserted that the trawler man is not a "post modern play thing" which had me wondering about how the history of postmodernism played out in this universe? Was Michel Foucalt put to death for birthing an especially wiley rhetorical god? Or, given the fact that gods are made and killed and retwisted at will, is postmodernism the mainstream position?

I think a little more the latter - that Faulkner is raging against relativism and the idea that a god may be reshaped by society's changing needs rather than an eternal and universal noumenon. (Which is ironic given the nature of the Trawler-man, but also how Faulkner has reshaped his narrative rise to greatness.)

[mysticaletherealliving]

Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

- Michel Foucalt

[ddarker-dreams]

☾ book recommendations: *✲⋆.

my all time favorites:

the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

frankenstein by mary shelly

the plague by albert camus

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

others that i'd recommend:

break the body, haunt the bones by micah dean hicks

tomie by junji ito

uzumaki by junji ito

berserk by kento miura

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan ellison

the tell-tale heart by edgar allen poe

the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe

rebecca by daphne du maurier

wuthering heights by emily brontë

dune by frank herbert

a shadow over innsmouth by h. p. lovecraft

the color out of space by h. p. lovecraft

the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft

crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

demons by fyodor dostoevsky

the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky

jane eyre by charlotte brontë

animal farm by george orwell

do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick

a long fatal love chase by louisa may alcott

the stranger by albert camus

the metamorphosis by franz kafka

the trial by franz kafka

dragonwyck by anya seton

discipline and punish by michel foucalt

the castle of otranto by horace walpole

faust by johann wolfgang von goethe

the fall by albert camus

the myth of sisyphus by albert camus

the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson

blood meridian by cormac mccarthy (do look into the content warnings though, there's heavy violence/depictions of 1840s-1850s racism)

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy

the dead by james joyce

the overcoat by nikolai gogol

dead souls by nikolai gogol

hiroshima by john hersey

useful fictions: evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature by michael austin

no exit by jean paule satre

candide by voltaire

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky

notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky

the shock doctrine by naomi klein

the 100 year war on palestine by rashid khalidi

blackshirts & reds by michael parenti

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which one of you fuckers added me on snapchat... i haven't logged in in TEN YEARS i forgot my name on there was a foucalt joke. i'm like WHO is michel and what possible benefit could they derive from stealing my snapchat account

[pissmoon]

RIP Michel Foucalt ud love the 'every quirky non-standard behaviour is a symptom of ADHD/anxiety/trauma' tiktok

[yakultii]

just realised I forgot topics I studied at uni yesterday ummmm

1. literature reviews

2. Michel Foucalt’s panopticon

and topics today…

1. ableism in sports

2. gendered bodies in sports, particularly in media

[thecolourrainbow]

Fiction

Carrie stephen king x

the silence of the lambs Thomas harris x

The big nowhere James ellroy x

Speedboat Renata adler x

Giovanni's room James Baldwin x

Nightwood djuana barnes x

Troutfishing in America Richard brautigan x

Play as it lays joan didion x

Desperate characters Paula fox

The golden notebook Doris lessing x

The moviegoer walker Percy x

The man who loved children Christina stead

Time with children elizabeth tallent

Getting into death Thomas m. Disch

Where you'll find me and other stories anne bettie

God lives in st Petersburg Tom bissell

The zebra storyteller Spencer holt

The art of struggle Michel houellebecq

The boat nam le

Pigeon feathers and other stories john Updike

Everything ravaged, Everything burned wells tower

What narcism means to me Tony hoagland

Pity the bathtub it's embrace of human form mattea Harvey

Foucalt's pendulum Umberto eco

The canterville ghost Oscar wilde x

Los sorias Alberto laiseca

Pandemonium Darryl gregory

Hopscotch Julio cortazar

Igur nebli miquel de palol I muntanyola

Journey to the end of the night louis-ferdinand Celine

Point omega Don dellilo

Black Sunday Thomas harris

El jardi dels set crepuscles Miguel de palol I muntanyola

The street of crocodiles Bruno Schultz

Tabu Timo k. Mukka

Don't forget to breathe (migrations, volume I) ashim Shankar

El troiacord Miguel de Pollo I muntanyola

The egg head republic Arno schmidt

Rock star Jackie Collins

The lost scrapbook evan dara

Geek love Katherine dunn

Parley after life diy guide to death and other taxes Bobby Miller

God's mountain erri de Luca

Precarious: stories of love, sex and misunderstanding al riske

Where are the children mary Higgins Clark

Gryphon: new and selected story Charles baxter

Venus drive Sam lipsyte

The girl in the flammable skirt aimme bender

The chrysanthemums and other stories john Steinbeck

A clean well lighted place Ernest Hemingway

To build a fire and other stories jack london

Why I live at the p.o and other stories Eudora Welty

Appointment in sammara john O'Hara

Man in the dark Paul auster

The rocking horse winner d.h Lawrence x

House of sleeping beauties and other stories yasunari kawabata

Time's arrow martin amis

Blubber island Guillermo galvan

Darconville's cat Alexander theroux

Canti del caos Antonio moresco

Sam Dunn is dead: futurist novel Bruno corra

Lonesome dove Larry mcmurtry

[not-from-the-absence-of-violence]

i name my plushies after filosofiers which wasn't very wierd until I named my baby blajhaj shark after Michel Foucault and now my partner goes Yesss time to cuddle with foucalt....

[bugjomes]

List of starting yaoi for the aspiring fugioshi:

Finding Nemo

Dads at Boyscouts in real life

Electrons

The two pieces of bread on a sandwich separated by the stuff inside the sandwich

Touching jeans in a department store

The creaking of your shitty car's suspension

The Saw movies

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ted Talks by landlords

The paper with your epilepsy diagnosis from your neurologist

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucalt

[alexjdakers]

Photography as an instrument of control and surveillance.

One of the first things that came to mind when thinking about how photography (and cameras in general, including for video) can be used as an instrument of control and surveillance was actually related to a midterm I just had in another class, COMM 254 The Politics of Algorithms.

This midterm (or at least, the prompt on it that I chose to answer) related to an article in the Guardian about "bossware" - that is, surveillance technologies being used by companies to monitor their employees when working remotely. Among the various such technologies and tools mentioned was the capability to utilize webcams on computers to randomly capture pictures and even record video when employees are working remotely. This of course is... pretty creepy, and worrying, to think about, and raises all sorts of invasion of privacy concerns, but it's a way in which photography and cameras can be, and are definitely being, used for surveillance.

Tying in what is presented in the "Reading Photographs" chapter by Richard Salkeld, this could relate to some of the ideas posed by Michel Foucalt on surveillance and control - particularly as it relates to the principle that we "internalize the mechanism of observation," meaning that we (i.e., any human being) might be manipulated to behave a certain way if we know there is a chance that we are being observed at any time.

In turn, this could also relate to the "Dear Stranger" work by Shizuka Yokomizo. The individuals photographed for that project have, of course, given consent to be captured on camera (which is more than can be said for employees being monitored by "bossware") - however, there must still be a sense of unease (or I would feel that, anyway) that there is a relative stranger out there in the darkness outside your window, taking a picture of you. I would imagine that even the people who agreed to participate in Yokomizo's project might have behaved a little differently (dressed differently, posed, etc) with the knowledge that they would be photographed at a predetermined time, as opposed to if it was a random act of voyeurism.

Cover picture courtesy of: https://www.kolide.com/blog/your-company-s-bossware-could-get-you-in-legal-trouble

[filmpigeon]

FEA395 Sec02 Week 1 - Joey Martinez

Week 1's screening of Different from Others was a great awakening for me to the fact that the presence of queerness has dated back to some of the earliest of stages in cinema. Personally, I don't have much, or never really looked into, knowledge of queer history before the second half of the 19th century and have found the film and reading by Michel Foucalt instantly enlighten me to the complicated past it has had in relation to the victorian era. As referred to in the reading in reference to Steven Marcus, they were "Other Victorians" who could only use code and acts of subtlety to make themselves silent and, in my opinion, passionately elusive. It's a constant struggle and, as I believe the film represents in several aspects, a proof of love in the silent fight.

The entire film itself is coded in ways I hadn't even realized until we talked about it in our class. The length of the collar, the hand movements, the general demeanor reminiscent of the 1800's gentleman like Sherlock Holmes as it was mentioned. One of the subtleties i completely missed was the scene in the ballroom where all of the attendees were crossdressers. I think it is a great representative to the audience that these codings are effective at staying hidden and it almost makes me feel guilty for having not seen it the first time around.

That guilt sort of signifies the impact this lesson has had on me as someone who's not part of the LGBTQ community as i'm simply an ally dating a bisexual. It's the sort of idea I may be blind to the struggle and at the same time, due to the age of the piece and how far back the reading refers to, makes me reflect on my neglect of the history and role the ideas presented have had on cinema and personal relationships. I am very interested with this being my introduction to more queer cinema.

[mi4012liamcoughlin]

The Terminal and Heterotopias

Heterotopia, a term coined by Michel Foucalt, which are places that are embedded in aspects and stages in our lives and that also mirrors and at the same time distorts and warps other spaces. So how does this relate to ‘The Terminal’? Well, Foucalt had six principles that help determine these spaces and ‘The Terminal’s’ main location, an airport, fit a few of these principles very well.  

The first principle is that it is established in all cultures but in diverse forms and especially if they are sites of crisis or later deviation. As airports are transitional areas that people enter to get to another entirely different place and are seen in pretty much every culture in the world, I think it's safe to say that it fits that principle.

The second principle is that it has had specific operations at different times in history. Airports, while not really changing what they are used for, have changed with the growing wave of technology and security the latter playing somewhat of a role in the film itself.  

The third principle is that it juxtaposes in a single space several incompatible spatial elements. I don’t think this one fits an airport all that much as a lot of the elements that tend to make up an airport tend to make sense and don’t really clash with the space as a whole, even the shops stand as a tourist incentive as well as places for people to have food if they are waiting awhile given airport security measures about food that people bring with them.

The fourth principle is that it encapsulates spatio-temporal discontinuities or intensities.  Airports do fit this as weather, airflow and a lot of data regarding these things and others can be used in predictions of delays and other structural things to do with an airport.

The fifth principle is that it presupposes an ambivalent system of opening or closing, entry. An airport does fit this as getting in or out of an airport for travel reasons requires a lot of systems and hoops to jump through, which has led to many mixed feelings about it. An example would be airport security as while it is a nerve-wracking time and even a bit of an annoyance to get through most if not all people would agree that it’s a necessary stressor to get through for the sake of everyone's safety.

The sixth and final principle is that the space has a specific operation in relation to other spaces. An airport does have a specific operation in relation to their spaces mainly regarding transportation and compensation as airports bring in tourists that will then enter other spaces for a variety of reasons. Airports also transport people that are moving for work or family as well.  

Looking over all the six principles of heterotopias, almost all of them fit airports well which makes it very clear that they are indeed a heterotopia.