#foucault — Public Fediverse posts
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Are YOU schizo-genocidal enough for REAL philosophy?
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Are YOU schizo-genocidal enough for REAL philosophy?
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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 😆
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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68
#HackerNews #Foucault #TradingCards #Video #Explanation #Knowledge #Society #Culture
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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68
#HackerNews #Foucault #TradingCards #Video #Explanation #Knowledge #Society #Culture
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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68
#HackerNews #Foucault #TradingCards #Video #Explanation #Knowledge #Society #Culture
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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68
#HackerNews #Foucault #TradingCards #Video #Explanation #Knowledge #Society #Culture
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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbHYjGvS68
#HackerNews #Foucault #TradingCards #Video #Explanation #Knowledge #Society #Culture
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I knew exactly what I was getting into with academia, yet having that understanding of what lay ahead does nothing. It provides no comfort. I can’t play the game, I feel disgusted with myself when I even try. Also, I want to preface by saying there wasn’t some kind of moment or crash-out that motivated me to write this. I was not spurned in any way, lmao. I think it’s just the passage of time and experience that has left me so sad and frustrated. I’m always worried about how I express myself, but hopefully, through writing, the pictures get a lot clearer as it’s something I’ve been feeling a lot over the last 1-2 years. Writing is something I really love, yet I never dedicate enough time to it. The malaise has long skunked in, and the stench drifts and wafts towards the direction of a door marked “Exit.”
There is this confidence/marketing ability needed that I cannot for the life of me embody. Selling myself, hyping myself, advocating for myself. Me me me me me. I definitely can be narcissistic, but I can’t jump through this hoop. I’m losing myself listening to things in seminars and presentations that have to be met with a head nod from everyone in the room so we can all signal that we are good people. It feels like one humiliation ritual after another. Perhaps a Julian Casablancas type of “returning to self-imposed solitude” is needed.
I’m such a complainer, but man, the fact that academia doesn’t realize that it is over is bewildering to me. People here genuinely think there’s probably a higher chance of some kind of socialist utopia or ceasefire being achieved through Bluesky posts than of the university simply being shuttered. So much talk about AI policies, so much talk about the harm of offloading your mental capacities to technology, and all I see is inaction spun as adapting to the times, so bit by bit they accept the wolf into the coop, keeping a sign up saying don’t cheat and a CCTV camera that’s dead. The idea that it’s only undergrads using AI is also ridiculous. I see it in almost half of the grad student work I come across, not to mention the occasional faculty member. It’s crept its way into publication and in the rat race that is publish or perish, everyone has hopped on the ride. It’s literally the Zizek quote about a date where the man brings a dildo, and the woman brings a pocket pussy. The very purpose of this existence is just put into a feedback loop that no one bothers to read, an institutional performance that’s lost any connection to why it started.
This noble savaging of poor and working-class people is also incredibly patronizing. Academia does the alienating not the other way around. You take some of the hardworking, intelligent, and idealistic (also psychopathic) people from the general population and spend years conditioning them so they become unable to communicate with normal people. How could some kind of socialist mobilization occur when they’ve spent the last 10-20 years pushing demographics away? All that’s being done is to deconstruct and dismantle, postmodernism and critical theory and the use of Foucault-style power dynamics has made academia in the humanities frame everything as power plays based on your own intersectional oppression points. I’m not even blaming or critiquing Foucault; I think the French pedo would be appalled at what his work has been spun into. The part that gets completely lost or disregarded, what he’s actually describing is that there is no self sitting underneath all the power relations. There isn’t some pristine individual waiting to be uncaged and liberated. The individual is formed and is the product of these power relations. You are made by what forms you, what institution you pass through and what power is moulding you. The body gets psychologized and subjectified and then something that you get to call “you” comes out of it. There is no pre-social authentic self being oppressed by the institution because it is a process of formation.
So then what does the striving student do with that insight: catalogue your intersectionality and submit it for peer review. A framework built to dissolve the sovereign subject is retrofitted to serve solely the construction of the individual. All while maintaining arguments towards creating community and spreading awareness to the oh so poor lumpen. Foucault himself in Subject and Power says that:
The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state and from the state’s institutions but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries. (Foucault, 1983, p.216)
The fixation on identity politics is not in any way a new form of subjectivity as it slots perfectly into the neoliberal order. It just makes me feel so sad, and it’s such a tough subject to write about because any criticism sounds like a right-wing talking point. But this fixation on identity/identity politics is rotting any chance of some kind of leftist movement. A thinker like Foucault, who wrote on how fixed identities applied to the body by sovereign/corporate/institutional power to categorize life and populations, would be horrified to see the people who name-drop him today do the exact opposite–reducing everyone to their identity signifiers.
And just to be clear none of this is a dismissal or criticism of the actual experiences that identity politics emerged from. The writing and mapping of how race/gender/sexuality/class get weaponized against people by institutions is completely real, and the insight and thinkers themselves aren’t the problem at all. They were responding to very real and brutal conditions. The problem is what happened when identity became a credential, which like all credentials do, continue serving the institution more than the people it was supposed to be about. The striving, well-off individual can absorb the language of liberation, and they’re not actually interested in dismantling the power structures embedded in politicized identities so much as they just want to change the power dynamics around identity to serve their beliefs and goals. Identity politics is a high-stakes pickleball game within the college-educated overclass. I will drink a gallon of bleach before having to write a positionality statement that’s glazing my somehow unique perspective of my mixed-race identity and non-bourgeois upbringing, while simultaneously critiquing all aspects of myself, but never so much to criticize the work itself!
Francois Cusset (2003/2008) wrote about how Foucault (as well as Lacan and others) were misinterpreted and/or twisted to fit the already existing moralism/psychology in American and British academia. Meaning that Foucault just acts as an empty signifier for activists and academics to dress up their puritan identity politics in a sexy French turtleneck. And isn’t it interesting that the CIA funded the translation of Foucault? The author Gabriel Rockhill goes through a declassified CIA document from 1985 where it’s shown that the CIA were tracking the French postmodern intelligentsia and cheering on their drift away/critiques of Marxism. I’m not saying Foucault was a CIA asset, or to make the very underqualified claim that he’s flawed according to MY analysis, but it’s a good indication of whose interests the work ended up serving. English-speaking universities got their domes one shot by French theory, they read one book of Foucault, and they set up new journals like “Critical Deconstructions of Zero Calorie Soda.”
But then my blind eyes seem to ignore that Deleuze and Lacan frequently make up the citations I make. Have I somehow unlocked and seen through the CIA’s intentions? I doubt it, I think I honestly fall into the same traps I criticize others for, it’s just perhaps more niche, so I escape the police lineup.
What depresses me so is that none of what I wrote here does anything. You can see the machine, label its parts, and see the shape of the cookie your dough will form into. But for the life of me, I just can’t do it. That door is still marked Exit, and the fear of what could be outside that door is something I need to confront after I defend.
References
Cusset, F. (2008). French theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. transformed the intellectual life of the United States (J. Fort, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 2003)
Foucault, M. (1983). The subject and power. In H. L. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow (Eds.), Michel Foucault: Beyond structuralism and hermeneutics (pp. 208–226). University of Chicago Press.
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De Weber à Foucault : rationalité formelle et société de normalisation panoptique
Rationalité formelle (Weber) → biopouvoir foucaldien : "cage d'acier" bureaucratique + panoptique réseau couvrant le corps social. Déshumanisation, individuation disciplinaire, surveillance totale. Une dynamique de contrôle normalisateur. #Foucault #Weber #Biopouvoir #Panoptique En écho à Foucault, la rationalité formelle (Weber) engendre une société de normalisation : biopouvoir fondé…
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De Weber à Foucault : rationalité formelle et société de normalisation panoptique
Rationalité formelle (Weber) → biopouvoir foucaldien : "cage d'acier" bureaucratique + panoptique réseau couvrant le corps social. Déshumanisation, individuation disciplinaire, surveillance totale. Une dynamique de contrôle normalisateur. #Foucault #Weber #Biopouvoir #Panoptique En écho à Foucault, la rationalité formelle (Weber) engendre une société de normalisation : biopouvoir fondé…
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Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology
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Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology
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Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology
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Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology
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Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Wrinkles and Corpulence (ca. 1909) by Alphonse Bertillon, from Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/fd1daf0d-8419-44c0-ad8b-b23d9f1794c4
#biopower #foucault #filing #criminals #identification #taxonomy #faces #archives #police #physiognomy #eyes #bertillonage #art #publicdomain
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Great article about one of my philosophical heroes, Michel Foucault — still incredibly relevant in a world saturated with social media.
Something I’ve only just realised: one of the core ideas I’ve carried for years is really a paraphrasing of his work on power and knowledge (via Hilary Lawson):
“Science is not powerful because it is true — it is true because it is powerful.”
#philosophy #Foucault #criticaltheory #socialmedia #powerandknowledge #digitalculture #criticalthinking
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Great article about one of my philosophical heroes, Michel Foucault — still incredibly relevant in a world saturated with social media.
Something I’ve only just realised: one of the core ideas I’ve carried for years is really a paraphrasing of his work on power and knowledge (via Hilary Lawson):
“Science is not powerful because it is true — it is true because it is powerful.”
#philosophy #Foucault #criticaltheory #socialmedia #powerandknowledge #digitalculture #criticalthinking
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Great article about one of my philosophical heroes, Michel Foucault — still incredibly relevant in a world saturated with social media.
Something I’ve only just realised: one of the core ideas I’ve carried for years is really a paraphrasing of his work on power and knowledge (via Hilary Lawson):
“Science is not powerful because it is true — it is true because it is powerful.”
#philosophy #Foucault #criticaltheory #socialmedia #powerandknowledge #digitalculture #criticalthinking
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Great article about one of my philosophical heroes, Michel Foucault — still incredibly relevant in a world saturated with social media.
Something I’ve only just realised: one of the core ideas I’ve carried for years is really a paraphrasing of his work on power and knowledge (via Hilary Lawson):
“Science is not powerful because it is true — it is true because it is powerful.”
#philosophy #Foucault #criticaltheory #socialmedia #powerandknowledge #digitalculture #criticalthinking
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Great article about one of my philosophical heroes, Michel Foucault — still incredibly relevant in a world saturated with social media.
Something I’ve only just realised: one of the core ideas I’ve carried for years is really a paraphrasing of his work on power and knowledge (via Hilary Lawson):
“Science is not powerful because it is true — it is true because it is powerful.”
#philosophy #Foucault #criticaltheory #socialmedia #powerandknowledge #digitalculture #criticalthinking
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“He looked at how #Foucault made this transition in the late 60s and early 70s from the doyen of #French structuralist #theorists to someone who inherited Sartre’s mantle of the engaged #intellectual.” fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
France in the 1960s -
“He looked at how #Foucault made this transition in the late 60s and early 70s from the doyen of #French structuralist #theorists to someone who inherited Sartre’s mantle of the engaged #intellectual.” fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
France in the 1960s -
“He looked at how #Foucault made this transition in the late 60s and early 70s from the doyen of #French structuralist #theorists to someone who inherited Sartre’s mantle of the engaged #intellectual.” fivebooks.com/best-books/f...
France in the 1960s -
It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us -
It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us -
It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us -
It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us -
It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us -
sa maison d’enfance à Marseille
Avant les plateaux télé et les grandes émissions, il y avait Marseille. Et plus précisément Bonneveine. Pour Jean-Pierre…
#Marseille #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #à #actu #Actualités #Bonneveine #C'est #denfance #est #europe #foucault #Il #jean #maison #Mon #ne #ou #Pierre #prefere #Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur #quartier #Républiquefrançaise #sa #vraiment
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/854241/ sa maison d’enfance à Marseille #à #actu #Actualités #Bonneveine #C'est #denfance #est #EU #europe #foucault #FR #France #Il #jean #maison #Marseille #Mon #ne #News #ou #Pierre #prefere #ProvenceAlpesCôteD'Azur #quartier #RépubliqueFrançaise #sa #vraiment
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📍 Local: UFPR Campus Reitoria (Rua General Carneiro, Centro, Curitiba). A sala exata será enviada aos inscritos.
Organização: PPGHIS / Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero / UFPR.
🔗 Link para inscrição: https://forms.office.com/r/b2DrnTrjuG
#EscritaDeSi #História #UFPR #PPGHIS #Curitiba #Foucault #Historiografia #EstudosDeGênero
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S. Brown, De Coubertin's olympism and the laugh of Michel #Foucault: Crisis discourse and the #olympicgames
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“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.” Nancy Fraser on Jürgen Habermas and her relation to his work in the LRB.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas
#habermas #Obituaries #londonreviewofbooks #academia #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #foucault
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“I’m inclined to side with those who hold that Habermas at first revivified critical theory but ultimately ended it.” Nancy Fraser on Jürgen Habermas and her relation to his work in the LRB.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas
#habermas #Obituaries #londonreviewofbooks #academia #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #foucault
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The Fake Left Is A Plutocratic Instrument:Disempowering, Deindustrializing, Stupidifying
Much of what is called the “Left” is neither socialist, nor ecological nor progressive in a good way. Instead it is malevolent and stupid, and often in complete contradiction with “Left” and “Green” policies of a few generations ago. This is particularly clear in Europe, which is increasingly ruined by the Islamo-Left (a contradiction in terms, as Islam is a backward religion from 14 centuries ago out there in the desert, nothing in common with the secular and progressive left of, say, 1789-1939).
The tradition of defending Ayatollahs was started by the French government in the 1960s, probably as an anti-US policy, to thank the US for having kicked the French out in so many more ways than one, rendering France a shadow of its former self. The idea was probably to steal Iran from the USA (the CIA had already weaponized the Ayatollahs in 1953…).
In the 1970s, kissing the Ayatollahs was followed by French philosophers such as Michel Foucault. Later many on the French “Left” argued that Muslims living in France would stop being Muslim on their own, and become 100% French. That was naive and showed they didn’t know the world, hate, and the power of money, let alone the power of tribalization and violence.
Far from being dedicated enemies of plutocracy, the self-declared “Left” and “Ecologistss/Green” have long been instrumentalized and weaponized by much of the plutocracy.For example, what is more plutocratic than Harvard or the New York Times (controlled by the same family since the 1800s…)? Xi’s daughter went to Harvard, with her bodyguards. Bill Gates built for Xi his electronic security apparatus. Then invited him at home in Seattle.
In Europe, the “Left” and “Green” destroyed the nuclear and other industries, often in secret conspiracies (Jospin 1999) but also by promoting insane ideologies, such as telling us that gas from Siberia was ecological, but gas from Western Europe was not. so that Putin and China could become even more powerful… As the Russian and Chinese dictators were super friendly to European plutocrats, and fed them with more than gas and cheap goods. For example Putin’s oligarchs extracted wealth from Russia, and then invested said wealth stolen from Russians, with their Western plutocratic friends.
Thus Europe became ever more de-industrialized, and depowered, enabling European plutocrats to do whatever they wanted to do (which they did). So many policies pretending to be “left” or “green” are the exact opposite in their long term consequences…
An example has been to replace the Native European population by Muslim immigrants: that’s done with a number of fiscal tricks. The interest is that uneducated and tame Muslim immigrants will not challenge European plutocrats and provide the serfs plutocrats need for the necessary minimum employment to service them.
The plutocratic class profits from this “Great Replacement”, and “Left” leaders have found there an electoral clientele (in part by claiming that it was the victim of racism). It is presented as a “Left” policy but the Native Europeans and their descendants see that the policy is directed against them and thus have switched from voting communist or socialist to voting “right”… And thus are insulted by being called “populist” and dangerous to “democracy” (by the latter term it means Oligarchic Democracy).
In countries such as France the “Left”, or more exactly “Caviar Left” in power for 46 years (mostly) is not just ruining the country, but endangering democracy as it increasingly puts the opposition in prison… While financing its own clientele through “associations” with a budget in excess of high education plus research…The polarization is rising. Differently from the USA, the fake left was allowed to ruin France…relative to other European countries. French GDP per capita, once roughly the highest in Europe, equal to Switzerland, is now half of Switzerland, and below the EU average… The Socialist-Plutocratic complex is solidly in power, and cooperating with the Sharia influenced judicial system (attacking the Qur’an sends you to prison…) Opposition politicians (Sarkozy) have been sent to prison on flimsy evidence, or prevented to run (Fillon). The head of the opposition is on trial for extremely obscure charges brought initially by the SPD (yes the German Socialists, the associates of Putin…) Much of France depends upon financing by government through associations and is terrified that the right would come in power and cut the giant subsidies…
The fun is only starting…
By the way, I am, on many issues, a Socialist, a real one. And the real Socialist system in France is breaking down under the assault of the leeches: 94% of France is a medical desert. What does that mean? You get cancer and you can’t get an appointment. So what do you do? You go to Switzerland and pay on your own dime to get treatment. How do I know? Well, I just financed a few such adventures for individuals in theory fully covered in France… By the “Couverture Medicale Universelle”… But “Socialism” should not mean retirement at 60, or working 35 hours for full pay, or spending 50 billion dollars a year on clientele “associations”…
Amusingly the “extreme-right” Party, the RN, embraces many “Socialist” aspects… So is not really an opposition force… At least in Spring 2026…
Patrice Ayme
#Economy #Foucault #France #GDP #history #politics #Ruin #Russia #Socialism #Ukraine #war -
"[...] la triplice definizione dello scrivere: scrivere è lottare, resistere; scrivere è divenire; scrivere è cartografare, <<io sono un cartografo...>>."
(Tratto da "#Foucault" di Gilles #Deleuze)
#MichelFoucault #GillesDeleuze #Archeologia #Filosofia #Psicologia #Resistenza #scrivere #scrittura #libro
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Welcome to the Panopticon
When reading a discussion of an unrelated philosophical issue, I realized that we’re living in a contraption proposed by Jeremy Bentham, the author of utilitarianism.
This is a sketch of the “panopticon”, a prison where the prisoners, “A”, lived in open, illuminated cells, all facing inwards toward a darkened central rotunda where there might be a guard, “B”, or there might not.
Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation [Wikipedia 1]
Bentham was just trying to reduce the number of guards per prisoner, per worker, patient or student.
Michel Foucault
However, the mechanism was looked at Michel Foucault, the French philosopher, who recognized it as a specific example of his theory of disciplinary power.
As an equation, it was control = hierarchy + normalization + examination [Wikipedia 2]
- Hierarchy is the structure than enables observation. There is a superior and inferiors.
- Normalization is the superiors being able to set norms. Deviation from the norms becomes visible and seen as abnormal.
- Examination is the knowledge of being watched. Being examined makes people aware they are subjects of scrutiny by their superiors. Conversely, they lack any way to have scrutiny over the superiors.
At this point, the inferiors realize that they could be outed as abnormal. To avoid that they “internalize the surveillance”, they regulate their own behavior so as to always appear normal.
Freedom becomes an illusion when you’re constantly aware that your behavior may be being observed and evaluated against norms you didn’t choose.
An Exercise for the Reader
Consider the internet, social media, closed-circuit TV, workplace monitoring, insurer access to your health records, learning management systems, credit scores and the like. Does being observed by them affect your behavior?
Are you in a panopticon, and if so, how many?
#closedCircuitTv #foucault #philosophy #politics #socialMedia -
Welcome to the Panopticon
When reading a discussion of an unrelated philosophical issue, I realized that we’re living in a contraption proposed by Jeremy Bentham, the author of utilitarianism.
This is a sketch of the “panopticon”, a prison where the prisoners, “A”, lived in open, illuminated cells, all facing inwards toward a darkened central rotunda where there might be a guard, “B”, or there might not.
Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation [Wikipedia 1]
Bentham was just trying to reduce the number of guards per prisoner, per worker, patient or student.
Michel Foucault
However, the mechanism was looked at Michel Foucault, the French philosopher, who recognized it as a specific example of his theory of disciplinary power.
As an equation, it was control = hierarchy + normalization + examination [Wikipedia 2]
- Hierarchy is the structure than enables observation. There is a superior and inferiors.
- Normalization is the superiors being able to set norms. Deviation from the norms becomes visible and seen as abnormal.
- Examination is the knowledge of being watched. Being examined makes people aware they are subjects of scrutiny by their superiors. Conversely, they lack any way to have scrutiny over the superiors.
At this point, the inferiors realize that they could be outed as abnormal. To avoid that they “internalize the surveillance”, they regulate their own behavior so as to always appear normal.
Freedom becomes an illusion when you’re constantly aware that your behavior may be being observed and evaluated against norms you didn’t choose.
An Exercise for the Reader
Consider the internet, social media, closed-circuit TV, workplace monitoring, insurer access to your health records, learning management systems, credit scores and the like. Does being observed by them affect your behavior?
Are you in a panopticon, and if so, how many?
#closedCircuitTv #foucault #philosophy #politics #socialMedia -
"australia", a photo booklet, or booklet of photo-poems, with some accompanying uh "notes".
published in that annoying way/place, on my blog:
https://anarchive.mooo.com/blog/australia/
#photography #langugae #signs #violence #colonialism #anonymity #foucault #valorization #dispossession #whiteness etc etc
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“He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication”*…
Plan of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791 (source)We’ve looked before at digital regimes that seem a little too close for comfort to Jeremey Bentham‘s notion of the Panopticon. Surveillance has continued to intensify. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox bring us up to speed…
It’s nearly impossible not to be watched these days. It can start right at home with your neighbors and their Ring cameras—a company that sold fear to the American public and is now integrating AI to turn entire neighborhoods into networked, automated surveillance systems.
Head out a bit further and you’ll likely be confronted by Flock’s network of cameras that not only track license plates, but also track people’s movements with detailed precision. And as the Trump administration raids cities across the U.S. for undocumented immigrants, tech giants like Palantir are powering tools for ICE, including one called ELITE that helps the agency pick which neighborhoods to raid.
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined r/technology for an AMA.
Understandably, people are worried about violations of their privacy by companies and the government. And many wonder, is there any way to go back once we’ve released all this AI-powered, surveillance tech?…
The (lightly edited for clarity) transcript is a bracing– but critically-important– read: “From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched,” @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @josephcox.bsky.social in @404media.co.
* “Bentham’s Panopticon [at top] is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows, one on the inside, corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other, on the outside, allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other. All that is needed, then, is to place a supervisor in a central tower and to shut up in each cell a madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy. By the effect of backlighting, one can observe from the tower, standing out precisely against the light, the small captive shadows in the cells of the periphery… He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. – Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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As we feel seen, we might recall that it was on this date in 2000, that the dot.com bust effectively began. Between 1995 and its peak five days days earlier, on March 10, 2000, investments in the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose from 1,006 to 5,048—a 400% gain fueled by the conviction that the internet would render every prior valuation framework obsolete. It did not.
On March 13, 2000, news that Japan had once again entered a recession triggered a global sell off that disproportionately affected technology stocks. Soon after, Yahoo! and eBay ended merger talks and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%; still, the S&P 500 rose 2.4% as investors shifted from strong performing technology stocks to poor performing established stocks. The market held steady on the 14th. Then, on this date 26 years ago, the broader market begin to drop… and kept dropping. By the end of the stock market downturn of 2002 (the “second chapter” in the correction that began in 2000), stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalization since the peak. At its trough on October 9, 2002, the NASDAQ-100 had dropped to 1,114, down 78% from its peak. It took 15 years for the Nasdaq to regain its March, 2000 peak.
#autocracy #Bentham #business #commerce #culture #Foucault #history #JeremyBentham #MichelFoucault #panopticon #politics #privacy #surveillance #Technology -
“He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication”*…
Plan of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791 (source)We’ve looked before at digital regimes that seem a little too close for comfort to Jeremey Bentham‘s notion of the Panopticon. Surveillance has continued to intensify. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox bring us up to speed…
It’s nearly impossible not to be watched these days. It can start right at home with your neighbors and their Ring cameras—a company that sold fear to the American public and is now integrating AI to turn entire neighborhoods into networked, automated surveillance systems.
Head out a bit further and you’ll likely be confronted by Flock’s network of cameras that not only track license plates, but also track people’s movements with detailed precision. And as the Trump administration raids cities across the U.S. for undocumented immigrants, tech giants like Palantir are powering tools for ICE, including one called ELITE that helps the agency pick which neighborhoods to raid.
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined r/technology for an AMA.
Understandably, people are worried about violations of their privacy by companies and the government. And many wonder, is there any way to go back once we’ve released all this AI-powered, surveillance tech?…
The (lightly edited for clarity) transcript is a bracing– but critically-important– read: “From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched,” @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @josephcox.bsky.social in @404media.co.
* “Bentham’s Panopticon [at top] is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows, one on the inside, corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other, on the outside, allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other. All that is needed, then, is to place a supervisor in a central tower and to shut up in each cell a madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy. By the effect of backlighting, one can observe from the tower, standing out precisely against the light, the small captive shadows in the cells of the periphery… He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. – Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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As we feel seen, we might recall that it was on this date in 2000, that the dot.com bust effectively began. Between 1995 and its peak five days earlier, on March 10, 2000, investments in the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose from 1,006 to 5,048—a 400% gain fueled by the conviction that the internet would render every prior valuation framework obsolete. It did not.
On March 13, 2000, news that Japan had once again entered a recession triggered a global sell off that disproportionately affected technology stocks. Soon after, Yahoo! and eBay ended merger talks and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%; still, the S&P 500 rose 2.4% as investors shifted from strong performing technology stocks to poor performing established stocks. The market held steady on the 14th. Then, on this date 26 years ago, the broader market begin to drop… and kept dropping. By the end of the stock market downturn of 2002 (the “second chapter” in the correction that began in 2000), stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalization since the peak. At its trough on October 9, 2002, the NASDAQ-100 had dropped to 1,114, down 78% from its peak. It took 15 years for the Nasdaq to regain its March, 2000 peak.
#autocracy #Bentham #business #commerce #culture #Foucault #history #JeremyBentham #MichelFoucault #panopticon #politics #privacy #surveillance #Technology