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Gebrauchsweisen von Michel Fou...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@smaurizi/117179552146412131

The recent news of the United States government going after Autistici Inventati has prompted me to re-visit the work of Béatrice Hibou, looking at state domination and the instrumentalisation of economic power.

These recent events demonstrate how the exercise of such power and domination is in no way confined to the territory of the state.

https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/07/07/anatomie-politique-de-la-domination-de-beatrice-hibou_1545790_3260.html

#power #domination #Hibou #Foucault #Weber #Gramsci

Zum 100er scheint es in Frankreich keine Badeschlappen zu geben, dafür eine Sonderbriefmarke. #foucault #eule https://www.lecarredencre.fr/timbre/michel-foucault-1926-1984/

L'ordre a pour fonction de débrouiller toutes les confusions.
"Il prescrit à chacun sa place, à chacun son corps, à chacun sa maladie et sa mort, à chacun son bien. Par l'effet d'un pouvoir omniprésent et omniscient qui se subdivise"
"La discipline fait valoir son pouvoir qui est d'analyse"
Michel Foucault, in “Surveiller et punir : naissance de la prison”

"Les pouvoirs publics réagissent". "Les ordonnances royales et les status urbains viennent dire : Retournez à votre place."

Une histoire de Patrick Boucheron : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/une-histoire-de/la-societe-la-violence-et-le-monde-fracture-9705227

#catastrophe #gouvernementalité #adaptation #conseilPodcast #histoire #peste #discipline #santéPublique #Foucault

Im Grunde einfach: man trennt Mensch und Werk. Was aber nicht angeht: bei den „eigenen Leuten“ schweigen, bei allen anderen dann aber die „Moralkeule“ schwingen.

https://taz.de/Reihe-zu-Foucaults-100-Geburtstag/!6202693/

#Foucault #Iran #1979

Unha de fútbol, para os que pensan que o fútbol é unha cousa de “borregos” convídovos a ler este texto de Orde e talento, a xente debe conhecer que na grada de Marathon Inferior de Riazor estáse a librar unha batalla política, defender os espazos de lecer é unha obriga.

#riazor #marathoninferior #futbol #foucault #depor #ordeetalento

From Tool to Dictator: Who’s Actually in Control Here? 🛠️🤖

The key question for all of us: 🤔

Have we relinquished control in the name of speed and efficiency? And in what situations do you now trust an algorithm more than your own gut feeling?

🎧 Listen now & join the conversation!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/157nUepYXa1PqvbpFRabIH?si=x9jbJ7u_RXKANnIAP3IxSg

#Technopol #NeilPostman #Digitalization #Philosophy #Technology #Foucault #Scientism #ManAndMachine #philosophies_de #Podcast

Panopticon or not to Panopticon

Bentham wrote it in 1787, in letters sent from a town in what's now Belarus. Cells in a ring, inspector in the middle, lit so he sees out and you can't see in. People always repeat the seeing part. The part that mattered was that you couldn't check. Is he up there right now? No way to know, so you act like he is. That's the whole trick. It runs on doubt, and doubt is cheap, which is how one guard covers a hundred cells.

Foucault took that in 1975 and turned it into a shape for modern power generally. School, barracks, factory, ward. Two things about it: you move through enclosures one at a time, and each one is trying to correct you.

Neither is true anymore, and Deleuze said so in 1992, in five pages in October. No more enclosures. No graduation, no discharge, no sentence you finish. And the individual splits into what he called the dividual - slices, attributes, fragments that travel without you. He wrote that before the web was commercial and still described a computer tracking your position and said, flatly, that this wasn't science fiction.

Zuboff filled in the money in 2019. Behavioral surplus: the exhaust off your ordinary life, kept for uses past improving the service, milled into predictions, sold. Which inverts the point of the thing. The old apparatus watched in order to fix you. This one watches in order to bet on you.

Then there's the piece Deleuze had no name for. Something has to put the fragments back together. That's data fusion, and it's why Palantir is the name people say. In February DHS signed for up to a billion over five years, Gotham and Foundry, any component agency drawing on it by task order without competing a contract. Enforcement records, biometrics, financial history, travel, resolved into one object you can act on.

The inputs aren't new. Credit bureaus are older than I am. What's new is the schema - the thing that decides your face and your rent history are attributes of the same entity. Deleuze's fragments, glued.

So there's no tower. Nothing to photograph, nothing to zone, nothing you can usefully subpoena. And responsibility spreads until nobody's holding any of it. The location broker sells to the aggregator, the aggregator to the vendor, the vendor licenses to the agency, and not one of them assembled the file.

I'm fairly sure "who's watching" is the wrong question, though. Nobody's watching? Which is worse?

#Surveillance #Panopticon #Foucault #Deleuze #Palantir #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #DataFusion #Philosophy

La volonté de non-parvenir : vers une utopie anarchocommuniste

Et si la vérité, même lorsqu’elle prétend décrire le réel, ne pouvait jamais se séparer des rapports de pouvoir qui la rendent audible ?Contre la vérité devenue domination, il faut peut-être unir Marx, Foucault, Clastres, Spinoza et Albert Thierry dans une politique de la non-parvenue : désaccumuler, désarmer, dé-hiérarchiser, refaire société. #Anarchism #Communism #Marxism #Foucault #Degrowth…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/la-volonte-de-non-parvenir-vers-une-utopie-anarchocommuniste/

Foucault et le canon comme pouvoir

Le canon n’est jamais une simple liste neutre d’œuvres “importantes”. Avec Foucault, on peut le lire comme un dispositif de pouvoir-savoir : il sélectionne, hiérarchise, autorise et exclut, tout en faisant passer ces choix pour naturels. #Foucault #Canon #Pouvoir #Savoir #Critique Penser le canon avec Foucault, c’est refuser l’idée qu’il s’agirait d’un simple inventaire objectif des œuvres qui “comptent”. Le canon est plutôt un…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/foucault-et-le-canon-comme-pouvoir/

Was soll ich machen jetzt hier, nicht etwa das Problem mit Gesprächstherapie zu Ende führen, und dann schreiben, sondern mir Medis neischüren wie 1 Narzisst?

#foucault #gefängnisdesschweigens #insschweigeneingeschlossen #entherapie

Human beings are very creative about how they create a surveillance state.
#panopticon #foucault #surveillance #police #state #sociology #anthropology #writer

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/07/26/35-the-panopticon-5/

@Karl_Theodor Bio-Politik, Bio-Macht nach #Foucault gemixt mit Korruption. Man weiss, wie es läuft u. kann irgendwie wenig machen.

I was distracted by the notion of colonialism today, so I took some notes. We tend to treat colonialism as pertaining to countries 'out there' – 'over there'. If we are victims of colonisation, the oppressor is 'out there' but looking in.

📝 https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-299870495?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=pvxh5

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mNHkZWfXKDyCC5Ljsj758?si=Yd41XyNVRbSUcwXmzP8oKA

#philosophy #politics #power #language #colonialism #control #foucault #mbembe #marx #heidegger #fanon #perspective #podcast #blog #substack #spotify #culture #empire #hegemony #essay

»Pantoffel – ›Schlappen‹, slippers – sind darauf berechnet, daß man ohne Hilfe der Hand mit den Füßen hineinschlüpft. Sie sind Denkmale des Hasses gegen das sich Bücken.«
Theodor W. #Adorno
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So steht es im #Suhrkamp-Newsletter 😂 😅 und die bieten für euren perfekten Sommer sogar #Foucault-Badeschlappen an: https://www.suhrkamp.de/kleidung/michel-foucault-badeschlappen-groesse-m-t-4038239050479

Also ich schwurble jetzt mal im Sinne Foucaults, aber wenn ich einen mit allerlei und immer krasseren (Überwachungs-)Rechten ausgestatteten Polizeiapparat als alternativlos framen wollte, dann würde ich Jahrzehnte lang pro Abend mindestens drölfzig Krimiserien im Fernsehen zeigen, in denen hehre, sympathische und selbstlose Polizeibeamt:innen fürchterlich abscheuliche Kriminelle jagen, um unsere Gesellschaft sicherer zu machen.

#nichtdeinfreundundhelfer #Foucault #ueberwachung

Wegen der gerade massiv anziehenden Überwachung, ist es sinnvoll, sich anzusehen, was da drunter liegt. Dazu ein paar Gedanken als #Thread.

Anlehnend an #Foucault würde ich sagen, die Kameras sind nicht in erster Linie da, um Straftaten aufzuzeichnen, sie sind vielmehr ein Disziplinierungsinstrument. Wir wissen, dass wir überwacht werden, also verhalten wir uns anders, denken anders, reglementieren uns selbst.

#ueberwachung

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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4529f311-3f60-4844-b67f-ef4dbc43a257

#biopower #foucault #fingerprints #ears #noses #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #mouths #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain

With chatGPT I do webdesign, with Claude Heidegger-Jokes

Macht wirklich Spass, fast wie in der Uni chatGPT war schon ein Spinner, Junge...

#sociology #philosophy #heidegger #gender #wissensproduktion #epistemiccare #foucault #bourdieu #marx #claude

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”*…

Henrik Karlsson argues that it can be more symbiotic than that…

Every few months I will read a tweet, or have a conversation, that makes me feel this is important, I must remember this. Often, these epiphanies are accompanied by a sense that I actually know this already, it had just somehow slipped my mind.

And for a few days, I do remember: my life shimmers with a new intensity, and I live the truth of what I grasped. But then, inevitably, the conveyor belt of things to pay attention to keeps churning, and my mind gets filled with small problems I need to solve, or new epiphanies or random noise, like news, and the shining fades from my eyes—I regress to being the same person as ever.

The Latin word for the tendency to lose track of what matters in the cacophony of things that attract our attention is stultitia. “Stultitia,” writes Michel Foucault in “Self-writing,”

is defined by mental agitation, distraction, change of opinions and wishes, and consequently weakness in the face of all the events that may occur; it is also characterized by the fact that it turns the mind toward the future, makes it interested in novel ideas, and prevents it from providing a fixed point for itself in the possession of acquired truth.

You can’t just read a blog post about high agency, get filled with a sense of possibility, and become, from then on, an agentic person. As John Gray puts it in his monograph on J.S. Mill, our character is “a cluster of habitual willings.” For changes to our behavior to become permanent, we must become different people.

In the same way that it is not enough to make a resolution that you will learn the piano, it is not enough to realize that when the kids act out, you shouldn’t lose your temper but slow down, listen, and regulate their nervous systems with the help of yours. Imagine how good a person I would be if having insights were enough! But reacting to the frustrations of your children with calm and curiosity is a skill as much as playing the piano is—and as with the piano, the act of learning it requires rewiring your nervous system through sustained attention and practice. Realizing the value of acting in a certain way might give you a temporary motivation to do it. But in order to actually live in accordance with what you believe in long-term, you must make it a habit.

And this is much harder than making a habit out of playing the piano. When you’re trying to make something like piano practice a habit, the standard advice is to chain it onto some already existing habit—to practice immediately after you brush your teeth in the morning, for example, or after you change out of your work clothes in the afternoon. Chaining the new habit to an already existing one provides a predictable trigger that helps remind you to practice. But the habits that make up our characters often do not follow a predictable schedule like this. I never know, for instance, when our children will act out (except that it will usually be when I’m least capable of handling it with grace—whenever both they and I are unusually hungry and tired). The conflicts seem to come out of nowhere, so I have to, somehow, always be ready to act in the proper way. I need to have the right reaction “ready at hand” (procheiron), as the Greek-philosopher-Roman-slave Epictetus put it. If Johanna and I talked about how we want to deal with the kids’ conflicts the night before, I will nearly always handle the situation well. The problem is to keep it top of mind.

During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for meditation, in which the writer would store quotes from books they had read. Each day, often in the morning, the notetaker would open their notebook and look for a passage relevant to something they were struggling with, and then they would meditate on that—unpacking it, making the idea top of mind, ensuring it was alive in them. If they needed courage, for instance, they could meditate on an anecdote that made it real for them what it meant to act bravely. The idea was that over time, the insights they gathered by reading would be transformed into character, something deeply ingrained in their way of thinking and seeing and acting.

This was, as I understand it, an exercise designed to combat the problem I outlined above. Meditating on what matters is a simple habit, which you can chain onto your morning routine, but it reinforces the habits you can’t plan, the habits that make up your character. It was, in the words of the French classicist Pierre Hadot, a spiritual exercise—an exercise because it required work and discipline, spiritual because it engaged the whole person, not just their intellect, but their emotions and their moral character. It was an attempt to treat the formation of character as a skilled practice, as something you can deliberately train and improve through targeted exercises…

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… I have often noticed that my experience of reality improves if I write and think about something.

But it strikes me now that the practice Foucault wrote about was probably more transformative than what I’ve ended up doing. Essay writing is incredibly time-consuming, and a lot of that time is spent on things that aren’t self-transforming: I spend less time reshaping my mind than I spend solving literary-technical problems that help me write more functional and beautiful essays, for the joy of the craft and for the benefit of readers. Another limitation of my practice is that when an essay is done, I move on. The ideas—though they have been much deepened and more firmly lodged in my mind—fall out of attention and start to fade.

There is an element of self-deception involved here. I like to write essays, so it is comforting to think of it as a powerful practice, something that helps me live more fully and grow as a person. But if I look at it soberly, it is clear to me that essay writing is not a practice that is ideal for the purpose of ethopoiesis.6 It is common to think that what we do achieves what we want it to achieve, even if there is no evidence for it. There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us—therapy, meditation, psychedelics—, but that branding doesn’t mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems. If you want to achieve a particular outcome, it is important to start from that goal and evaluate which practices actually help you.

The most important ideas we need to return to weekly, even daily. Essay-writing, then, is not a functional substitute for having a practice that keeps the important truths top of mind, day after day. But it did help me reach that conclusion…

On a particular kind of commonplace book and staying centered: “How not to forget what matters,” from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social.

* Abert Einstein

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As we contemplate contemplation, we might that it was on this date in 1949 that the first science fiction series debuted on American television, the DuMont Network’s Captain Video and His Video Rangers.  Written by such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, James Blish, and Jack Vance, it was– even in its time, when early television productions often were thrown-together affairs– considered crude, owing much to the fact that the daily show was done live on a meager budget.  Indeed, the actors were paid so little they actually made more money from appearing in character at supermarket openings, county fairs, and the like than they did from their salaries.

Still, it ran for a total of 1,537 episodes, and quickly spawned competitive sci-fi offerings like Tom Corbet, Space Cadet and Space Patrol.

For episodes on YouTube, see here.

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LA CAJA DE HERRAMIENTAS FOUCALTIANA EN ACCIÓN

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://laescueladeguajara.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/la-caja-de-herramientas-foucaltiana-en-accion/

This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/what-is-philosophy?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency

“Well, if they have cameras and they know someone is watching the workers…” —my coworker talking about service/retail workers being surveilled like it’s what keeps them in line, meanwhile she has the luxury of having a fifteen minute telephone convo with her adult kid, knowing her white color job doesn’t surveil her. #surveillanceInTheWorkplace #panopticon #landscapesofSurveillance
#foucault

Are YOU schizo-genocidal enough for REAL philosophy?

https://piefed.social/c/philosophymemes/p/2084353/are-you-schizo-genocidal-enough-for-real-philosophy

Are YOU schizo-genocidal enough for REAL philosophy?

https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/2084351/are-you-schizo-genocidal-enough-for-real-philosophy

I had my mental health care plan review today, and got into a really good chat with my GP about chronic suicidality and the medical industry's responses to mental health as a whole.. and how it leans into punitivity and carceral thinking.

Now I'm struggling with the temptation to gift him some Foucault to read, like HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK, MY GUY!

..if you want to be my GP you're going to have to be up in your critical theory 😆

#health #Medical #MentalHealth #foucault

Le Guin and Zamyatin follow Foucault in my exploration of the parable of the two valleys with Claude, part 8 of 13.

👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/27/comrade-claude-8-le-guin/?utm_source=masto

We explore how speculative fiction often anticipates complex philosophical theories and the prescience of 'We'.

#philosophy #politics #psychology #society #humancondition #blog #podcast #power #freedom #books #parable #speculativefiction #tyranny #ussr #foucault #leguin

I ask Claude how Michel Foucault might consider the parable of the 2 valleys.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/26/comrade-claude-7-foucault/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I also realise that I lose at least an hour a day just managing my blog posts and social media, as I'd regained that time recently due to spotty internet connectivity owing to a snowstorm in New England.

#philosophy #psychology #Foucault #power #politics #parable #ai #claudeai #blog #podcast #institutions #selfregulation #metaphor #panopticon #truth #society #language #freedom #change

Grâce à René Descartes, "le péril de la folie a disparu de l'exercice même de la Raison. Celle-ci est retranchée dans une pleine possession de soi où elle ne peut rencontrer d'autres pièges que l'erreur, d'autres dangers que l'illusion. Le doute de Descartes […] bannit la folie au nom de celui qui doute […]
Désormais la folie est exilée."

Michel #Foucault in "Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique"

#socialité #Lumières #séparation #possession #citation #citations #soi #pouvoirDeSoi #santéMentale #perversion #sexualité #morale #sociologie #psychologie #rationalisme #normalité #éthique #philosophie #Schadenfreude #normalité #anthropologie #handicap #validisme #finDeVie #aideàMourir #Descartes #folie #Raison #MichelFoucault

Online #Seminar: The Making and Unmaking of Selfhood

Which strategies do human beings develop to relate to themselves and to others? How do discourses and practices affect the way in which selfhood is conceptualized and transformed?

The seminar offers intercultural perspectives on self-cultivation at the encounter of philosophy and religious studies, including engagement with #Aristotle, #Epicureanism, #Neoplatonism, #Judaism, and #Foucault

Program and registration: https://www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/news-and-events/events/2024/seminar-making-unmaking-selfhood

Ich lerne für den #Heilpraktiker die #ICD10. Das ist das Buch in dem steht, welche psychiatrischen Störungen wie aussehen und wie sie heißen. Und es ist zum verrückt werden. Die im Jahr 2024 im deutschen Gesundheitswesen verwendete Definition von "Wahn" z.B. stammt aus dem Jahr 1913 und von einem Philosophen.
Das ist als würde ein Arzt im Jahr 2024 bei einer Syphillis-Infektion zur Infektion mit Malaria raten - was der Stand der Medizin 1913 war.

Je länger ich mich mit der Einteilung der psychischen #Störungsbilder beschäftige, desto mehr bekomme ich den Eindruck, dass die noch willkürlicher auf- und unterteilt sind, als Tier- und Pflanzenarten. (Was u.a. Lulu Miller in "Warum es keine Fische gibt: Eine Geschichte von Verlust, Liebe und der verborgenen Ordnung des Lebens" oder die Biologin Carol Kaesuk Yoon in "Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science" feststellen.)

#Wahn #Jaspers #Psychiatrie #Geschichte #Foucault #Taxonomie #Psychologie

.. und ich habe erst einem Kollegen gesagt, dass eigentlich nur an Prozessen vorbeigearbeitet werden muss ^^ ..

Interessante Perspektive von @morf_sqrtPi weil eigentlich der Schmerz immer nach oben gegeben werden muss, um die Dummheit und #Dysfunktionalitaet​en des Systems bloss zu stellen. Zumindest ist es das was ich verstehe.

verhindern Strafen spieltheoretisch die Utopie? | mmM#226

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=fqNAq9w2Ct0

#Gametheory #Spieltheorie #Systemtheorie #Organisation #Strafe #Schuld #Foucault

Publiquei o artigo "Entre Jaspers e o "jovem Foucault": Antropologia, Loucura, Obra e Civilização", na coletânea intitulada "Modos de subjetivação contemporâneos: Crítica e Clínica", para a revista Araripe da UFCA, a convite dos organizadores.

Trabalho ali sobre o "jovem #Foucault" e o encontro dele com #Nietzsche, proporcionado a partir de figuras como #Jaspers e da crítica a ele por autores como Maurice #Blanchot.

@philosophy @PhilosophicalPsychology @psychology

https://philpapers.org/rec/MIOEJE

Was ist die #Kontrollgesellschaft?

#Deleuze: #Unterhandlungen; #Macht, so eine der zentralen #These​n des #Text​es, wird in der #Kontrollgesellschaft weder von #Individuen noch von #Institution​en ausgeübt. Sie ist #Teil des #System​s, #systemimmanent. Die #total​e #Institution;

#Foucault: #Überwachen und #Strafen: Der #Körper ist #politisch; #disziplin​arische #Maßnahmen;

https://www.fluter.de/was-ist-die-kontrollgesellschaft