“The ideas of those who consume post-structuralism is really defined by the critical orientation that sees it as interpretive acts and thereby may or may not reflect by what is out there. This creates a commitment issue in scholarship and knowledge generation. Correct me if this is wrong about you doing, but I find it delightfully ironic that you will settle to use lacanian and foucauldian scholarship in an analogical or metaphorical manner. ”

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ATTN: The FULL Foucault/Chomsky debate has been uploaded May 7th, withfull English subtitles for the first time ever. 

edit: with translations more faithful than most published works. biotch(es).

Full transcript here.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same thing. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to a hyper- and pessimistic activism.

Michel Foucault “On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress.” in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics,  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1983)  231-232.

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As before: Foucauldian aesthetics = praxis + faith - hope.

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“Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes great pains to relate in detail the things it does not say, denounces the power it exercises, and promises to liberate itself from the very laws that have made it function… ” — M Foucault

In 1955, Derrida gave a paper he had written on Husserl to his supervisor, Louis Althusser. Derrida wanted the paper to count for his degree. Althusser confessed that he was unable to evaluate Derrida’s work on Husserl (‘It’s too difficult, too obscure,’ he remarked). So he gave the paper to Foucault, who commented, ‘Well, it’s either an F or an A+.’
selection from Who Was Jacques Derrida? (via poeticsofdeath)

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“‘…the idea of morality as obedience to a code of rules is now disappearing, has already disappeared. And to this absence of morality corresponds, must correspond, the search for an aesthetics of existence.’”

—Foucault, ‘An Aesthetics of Existence’, in Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture; Interviews and other writings, p. 49.


My first meditation teacher speaks of the need to cultivate an art of living. It is unlikely that this genial, elderly Indian gentleman read French continental philosophy. But nevertheless there’s consonance with the Foucauldian notion of an aesthetics of existence, where ‘aesthetics’ doesn’t merely refer to beauty but an ongoing, perhaps endless, work of crafting.

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren’t good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based… To do critcism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

Michel Foucault

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of all the philosophy and postmodern blogs i’m following, how the hell did this quote slip by all of them and reach me via GENERALELECTRIC’s blog?

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