Thanes Wongyannava
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622091214
- eISBN:
- 9789882207493
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622091214.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter traces the localization of Michael Foucault's thought, in particular, his notion of “discourse,” translated as wathakam in Thai. Foucault's notion of discourse has been extensively ...
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This chapter traces the localization of Michael Foucault's thought, in particular, his notion of “discourse,” translated as wathakam in Thai. Foucault's notion of discourse has been extensively appropriated by Thai scholars, both in the humanities and social sciences, and today Thai social scientists tend to associate the word “discourse” with Foucault. One of the first appearances of wathakam was in a satirical article, “On the Discourse of Camelology.” While clearly intended to be humorous, this article makes the serious and non-trivial point that the impact of poststructuralist and postmodern theoretical trends in Thailand may not be at the level of theory. It points to the fact that the will to truth is not a Thai preoccupation, and that the obsession with the Western search for truth is perhaps too alien an enterprise to arouse enthusiasm amongst Thais. From the Thai perspective, so long as an idea or a theory is useful or practical it will be accepted and warmly welcomed.Less
This chapter traces the localization of Michael Foucault's thought, in particular, his notion of “discourse,” translated as wathakam in Thai. Foucault's notion of discourse has been extensively appropriated by Thai scholars, both in the humanities and social sciences, and today Thai social scientists tend to associate the word “discourse” with Foucault. One of the first appearances of wathakam was in a satirical article, “On the Discourse of Camelology.” While clearly intended to be humorous, this article makes the serious and non-trivial point that the impact of poststructuralist and postmodern theoretical trends in Thailand may not be at the level of theory. It points to the fact that the will to truth is not a Thai preoccupation, and that the obsession with the Western search for truth is perhaps too alien an enterprise to arouse enthusiasm amongst Thais. From the Thai perspective, so long as an idea or a theory is useful or practical it will be accepted and warmly welcomed.
Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823251353
- eISBN:
- 9780823252893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823251353.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Chapter 5 Shows that the characteristic of biopolitical sovereignty is that it appears as pure regulation in the sense that the means of the exercise of power appear to justify the means of the ...
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Chapter 5 Shows that the characteristic of biopolitical sovereignty is that it appears as pure regulation in the sense that the means of the exercise of power appear to justify the means of the exercise of violence. It is argued, however, that the idea of an end is implicit because biopolitics relies on the operation of ancient and modern justifications of sovereign violence. The problem of resistance to power is further discussed with reference to Michel Foucault's position that any confrontation with power is doomed to increase its strength. A different strategy of resistance and of agonistic democracy is proposed through a reading of Coetzee's Life And Times of Michael K.Less
Chapter 5 Shows that the characteristic of biopolitical sovereignty is that it appears as pure regulation in the sense that the means of the exercise of power appear to justify the means of the exercise of violence. It is argued, however, that the idea of an end is implicit because biopolitics relies on the operation of ancient and modern justifications of sovereign violence. The problem of resistance to power is further discussed with reference to Michel Foucault's position that any confrontation with power is doomed to increase its strength. A different strategy of resistance and of agonistic democracy is proposed through a reading of Coetzee's Life And Times of Michael K.
Christopher Fox
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520200104
- eISBN:
- 9780520916227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520200104.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
Central to the intellectual revolution of the Enlightenment was the ambition of creating the science of man. That the human and social sciences were born during the eighteenth century is a largely ...
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Central to the intellectual revolution of the Enlightenment was the ambition of creating the science of man. That the human and social sciences were born during the eighteenth century is a largely accepted view. In his project, David Hume shared with contemporaries a new-felt need to account for moral as natural things. Science itself has been the subject of vast scrutiny, both as a system of inquiry and in respect to its global impact. In the ensuing turmoil, people have heard much about the mystifications of scientific rationality, notably through the writings of Michael Foucault. The last several decades have also seen an explosion in eighteenth-century studies and new techniques of inquiry which have insisted that we should not take the scientific rhetoric at face value.Less
Central to the intellectual revolution of the Enlightenment was the ambition of creating the science of man. That the human and social sciences were born during the eighteenth century is a largely accepted view. In his project, David Hume shared with contemporaries a new-felt need to account for moral as natural things. Science itself has been the subject of vast scrutiny, both as a system of inquiry and in respect to its global impact. In the ensuing turmoil, people have heard much about the mystifications of scientific rationality, notably through the writings of Michael Foucault. The last several decades have also seen an explosion in eighteenth-century studies and new techniques of inquiry which have insisted that we should not take the scientific rhetoric at face value.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853238058
- eISBN:
- 9781846312960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238058.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter introduces the theory of discourse and its development. It describes the contributions of Jürgen Habermas and Michael Foucault to the theory of discourse. In Foucault's theory of the ...
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This chapter introduces the theory of discourse and its development. It describes the contributions of Jürgen Habermas and Michael Foucault to the theory of discourse. In Foucault's theory of the production and reproduction of society, society is regarded as the outcome of competition and social conflict. Habermas' contribution centres on his idea of discourse as a problematisation that re-establishes a shaken mutual understanding and agreement through the development of symbols and all this has consequences for the publicly relevant organisation of society.Less
This chapter introduces the theory of discourse and its development. It describes the contributions of Jürgen Habermas and Michael Foucault to the theory of discourse. In Foucault's theory of the production and reproduction of society, society is regarded as the outcome of competition and social conflict. Habermas' contribution centres on his idea of discourse as a problematisation that re-establishes a shaken mutual understanding and agreement through the development of symbols and all this has consequences for the publicly relevant organisation of society.
Sheldon S. Wolin
Nicholas Xenos (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691133645
- eISBN:
- 9781400883424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691133645.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter analyzes Michel Foucault's conception of power. It suggests that the Foucaldian conception remains incomplete, which provides the opportunity to criticize current postmodern conceptions ...
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This chapter analyzes Michel Foucault's conception of power. It suggests that the Foucaldian conception remains incomplete, which provides the opportunity to criticize current postmodern conceptions before they settle in as reigning orthodoxies. Foucault approached the notion of power through a running criticism of some of the distinctive categories of modern political theory. The most important of these were theory, action, and the sovereign state. Theory and action is a formula as old as Western political theory, but it became the hallmark of modern political thinking, both in Hobbes's conjunction of theory and technology and in Marx's linking of theory to revolution. Foucault viewed theory as a totalizing system of thought, an all-inclusiveness that was at once authoritarian and ignorant.Less
This chapter analyzes Michel Foucault's conception of power. It suggests that the Foucaldian conception remains incomplete, which provides the opportunity to criticize current postmodern conceptions before they settle in as reigning orthodoxies. Foucault approached the notion of power through a running criticism of some of the distinctive categories of modern political theory. The most important of these were theory, action, and the sovereign state. Theory and action is a formula as old as Western political theory, but it became the hallmark of modern political thinking, both in Hobbes's conjunction of theory and technology and in Marx's linking of theory to revolution. Foucault viewed theory as a totalizing system of thought, an all-inclusiveness that was at once authoritarian and ignorant.
Miguel Sicart
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012652
- eISBN:
- 9780262255134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012652.003.0003
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Game Studies
This chapter explores the process of becoming a player. It begins by taking up the concept of game as object, framing it within Michel Foucault’s theories about power. These structures create a ...
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This chapter explores the process of becoming a player. It begins by taking up the concept of game as object, framing it within Michel Foucault’s theories about power. These structures create a being, a subjectivity that can be explained using the theory of Alain Badiou, which has a certain tradition in the field of computer game research. Barbara Becker’s theories on the body-subject lead a methodological turn toward a phenomenological and hermeneutical understanding of the player. This turn sets the player as subject into perspective, providing an approach for understanding the player as a moral being. It is argued that because the player is a subject that exists in a game situation, and because this subject operates by interpreting this situation both within the ethics and culture of her experience as player and as a human being, the player as subject can legitimately be considered a moral being. A computer game is then a moral object that is actualized by a moral agent.Less
This chapter explores the process of becoming a player. It begins by taking up the concept of game as object, framing it within Michel Foucault’s theories about power. These structures create a being, a subjectivity that can be explained using the theory of Alain Badiou, which has a certain tradition in the field of computer game research. Barbara Becker’s theories on the body-subject lead a methodological turn toward a phenomenological and hermeneutical understanding of the player. This turn sets the player as subject into perspective, providing an approach for understanding the player as a moral being. It is argued that because the player is a subject that exists in a game situation, and because this subject operates by interpreting this situation both within the ethics and culture of her experience as player and as a human being, the player as subject can legitimately be considered a moral being. A computer game is then a moral object that is actualized by a moral agent.
Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226036885
- eISBN:
- 9780226037073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226037073.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This chapter discusses the preparatory stage of collaborative fieldwork. It also presents some reflections on the forms of power relations identified by Michael Foucault, preparedness, equipment and ...
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This chapter discusses the preparatory stage of collaborative fieldwork. It also presents some reflections on the forms of power relations identified by Michael Foucault, preparedness, equipment and venue-mode subjectivation.Less
This chapter discusses the preparatory stage of collaborative fieldwork. It also presents some reflections on the forms of power relations identified by Michael Foucault, preparedness, equipment and venue-mode subjectivation.
Julian Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226389257
- eISBN:
- 9780226389288
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226389288.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty ...
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In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for French gays prior to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, Arcadie—with its club and review—was a social and intellectual hub, attracting support from individuals as diverse as Jean Cocteau and Michel Foucault and offering support and solidarity to thousands of isolated individuals. Yet despite its huge importance, Arcadie has largely disappeared from the historical record. The main cause of this neglect, this book explains, is that during the post-Stonewall era of queer activism, Baudry's organization fell into disfavor, dismissed as conservative, conformist, and closeted. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews with the reclusive Baudry, the book challenges this reductive view, uncovering Arcadie's pioneering efforts to educate the European public about homosexuality in an era of renewed repression. In the course of relating this absorbing history, the book offers a startlingly original account of the history of homosexuality in modern France.Less
In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for “homophiles” that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly thirty years. In addition to acting as the only public voice for French gays prior to the explosion of radicalism of 1968, Arcadie—with its club and review—was a social and intellectual hub, attracting support from individuals as diverse as Jean Cocteau and Michel Foucault and offering support and solidarity to thousands of isolated individuals. Yet despite its huge importance, Arcadie has largely disappeared from the historical record. The main cause of this neglect, this book explains, is that during the post-Stonewall era of queer activism, Baudry's organization fell into disfavor, dismissed as conservative, conformist, and closeted. Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews with the reclusive Baudry, the book challenges this reductive view, uncovering Arcadie's pioneering efforts to educate the European public about homosexuality in an era of renewed repression. In the course of relating this absorbing history, the book offers a startlingly original account of the history of homosexuality in modern France.
Rio Otomo
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628461190
- eISBN:
- 9781626740662
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461190.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter continues the discussion of Boys Love (BL) studies by interrogating BL narratives as feminist-utopian pornographic fantasies, with an analysis of the works of Judith Butler, Luce ...
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This chapter continues the discussion of Boys Love (BL) studies by interrogating BL narratives as feminist-utopian pornographic fantasies, with an analysis of the works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Michael Foucault. It looks at feminist theories of how fantasy works in women's pornography in order to challenge the common perception that pornographic imagery is necessarily degrading or demeaning. The study relates to the false perception that participating writers and readers of BL are fujoshi, the “rotten girls,” who are sexually deprived in real life. To highlight this reading, it also contrasts the essentially narcissistic autoeroticism of Modernist writer Mishima Yukio's obsession with three-dimensional male bodies with female BL artists/readers' fascination with the flat, two-dimensional bodies of fantasized male BL characters. The absence of female characters in the BL text entails the negation of their own female bodies, and thus enables an erotic autonomy that is not tied to any specific viewpoint or sexual identity.Less
This chapter continues the discussion of Boys Love (BL) studies by interrogating BL narratives as feminist-utopian pornographic fantasies, with an analysis of the works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Michael Foucault. It looks at feminist theories of how fantasy works in women's pornography in order to challenge the common perception that pornographic imagery is necessarily degrading or demeaning. The study relates to the false perception that participating writers and readers of BL are fujoshi, the “rotten girls,” who are sexually deprived in real life. To highlight this reading, it also contrasts the essentially narcissistic autoeroticism of Modernist writer Mishima Yukio's obsession with three-dimensional male bodies with female BL artists/readers' fascination with the flat, two-dimensional bodies of fantasized male BL characters. The absence of female characters in the BL text entails the negation of their own female bodies, and thus enables an erotic autonomy that is not tied to any specific viewpoint or sexual identity.