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>>10613377
Sex is just about dominance or submission do you even read daddy Foucault?

Start controlling yourself

Any foucaultfag here? I'm reading stuff unrelated and these horrible scholars just can't stop using his terminology. Can someone explain clearly the difference between "discursive formation/practice" & "episteme"? I don't want to read this bald fuck

>>10229412
>>10229434
kek this

californian cult of the self pls go

How is France able to consistently shit out the worst philosophers?

>>9445870

Im obviously on to something if you have to be that vulgar.

>>9098975
>More importantly, he had now also liberated himself from the paranoid leftovers of his own studies in power. It was only the attitude of methodical calmness, acquired late on, that enabled him to formulate a concept of regimen, disciplines and power games devoid of all compulsively anti-authoritarian reflexes. When he states sententiously in the same interview, recalling his beginnings in abstract revolt, ‘One not only wanted a different world and a different society, one also wanted to go deeper, to transform oneself and to revolutionize relationships to be completely “other”, he is already speaking as someone genuinely changed who, light years away from his beginnings, remembers his confused longing for complete otherness. With this turn of phrase he is beyond irony, even beyond humour. In his way, Foucault repeated the discovery that one cannot subvert the ‘existing’ – only supervert it. He had stepped out into the open and become ready to perceive something strictly invisible for an intelligence conditioned in French schematicisms: the fact that human claims to freedom and self-determination are not suppressed by the disciplines, regimes and power games, but rather enabled. Power is not an obstructive supplement to an originally free ability; it is constitutive for ability in all its manifestations. It always forms the ground floor above which a free subject moves in. Hence one can describe liberalism as a system of disciplinary checks and balances without glorifying it in the slightest – but without denouncing it either. With the calm severity of a civilization trainer, Foucault states: ‘Individuals could certainly not be “liberated” without educating them in a certain way.’

>Foucault had gone a certain distance along this path by newly covering the universe of ancient philosophical asceticisms in a series of meticulous rereadings of mostly Stoic authors – unimpeded by the ubiquitous barriers of critical kitsch, which sees domination in every form of ‘self-control’, and immediately suspects any discipline in one’s way of life of being a self-repression that doubles an external repression.

>People took all those analyses of asylums, clinics, police institutions and prisons for a slightly outlandish form of social critique and lavished praise on its lyrically drugged fastidiousness. None of his readers understood that they were always also ascetic exercises in self-shaping in place of a third suicide attempt, and possibly even the author himself was not always aware of it. His insistence on the anonymity of authorship aimed in the same direction: if no one is there, no one can kill themselves. The bafflement was therefore great when the older Foucault sidestepped with the irony of one who had detached himself, shaking off his critical and subversive followers.

>>9083759
Discipline and Punish by French Meme Author #7

AIDS

>>8190953
you're my kinda meatbag

you robots desperately need to read Foucault

bump

Foucault

It's all power relations.

>>5343699
*tips back*

Hey, I heard this thread was full of faggots and naturally I decided to stop by.

Wanna see what's inside my briefcase?