This is the sort of book that you feel that is brilliant, that brings something substantial to the humanities, a book which was read and reread and continues to amaze, yet you cant wait to finish it and go back to critics, who had enough patience to depict it sentence by sentence, because you are bo...
There are practical and concise explanations of discourse and discourse analysis, including good summaries of Foucault’s approach. This is not one of them. If asked to recommend a book by Foucault, I would suggest a different one which I reviewed earlier this year: I, Pierre Rivière, having slaug...
I enjoyed this book on a number of levels, but in the first place (for the first 170 pages in fact) as a gripping murder mystery, and for this alone the book was a terrific read. There is a pretty big clue as to who dunnit in the book’s title and that is not the mystery, The crime itself, as the ti...
Even if the title, "The History of Sexuality", would suggest a regular exploration of the customs, traditions and concepts regarding sexuality during the course of centuries - and it would have been interesting anyway - actually Foucault proposes a different study from the beginning. Given that he h...
This book called an "erotic diary" was actually assigned reading in a political science course. This is the memoir of Herculine Barbin, a hermaphrodite who lived from 1838 to 1868, designated female at birth and then forced to take on a male identity when an affair with a women resulted in her physi...
NEW REVIEW [it took more than a few days to get back to this -- I hope someone reads it... lol]I will add only a few additional comments to what I’ve already written (below and in the comments sections). It will be enough and more than enough.I came at this book with decades of prejudice built-up – ...
UPDATE:I realize now (as I read Dreyfus and Rabinow) that I completely misread this book. I read it too quickly, and the book is maddeningly eccentric and so difficult to comprehend. Further, I read it without sufficient context either of this book itself, or of Foucault's corpus, or of the philosop...
The latest soul-crunching compilation from DJ MF has dropped!DJ MF is a Poitiers-based electronic-music producer known for bringing an undiluted sound of the underground to new audiences. From his work as a founding member of the infamous History of Systems of Thought Crew to his groundbreaking solo...
Message of the book that struck me:We have technologies, but it's the people behind it that make it work. It's also the people behind it that also determines how it will be used - for what gains? for what intentions? Read this for my college Philosophy class, and I have to say, it made me think a lo...
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