As my professor spoke today, something sparkling flew out of her mouth and crashed onto the table in front of me. As I stared at the glimmering shards of the something lying in front of me, bewildered that such a thing could happen in the absence of psychedelic assistance, I began to piece them together …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Power and sex
What remains of the individual after power has had its way? Is the discursive body an automaton, emptied of will by the permeating discourse of pleasure and sexuality? Or does something remain that can push back and do some penetrating of its own? Foucault suggests that although power is indeed omnipresent in the sense that …
Power and permeability
Power is employed through a net-like organisation. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising this power. They are not only its inert or consenting target; they are always also the elements of its articulation. (Foucault, “Two Lectures,” 98) In one sense, this …
