Comments on: Cyborg Foucault http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/08/02/cyborg-foucault/ thoughts on technology and the politics of psychopharmacology Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:29:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Brad http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/08/02/cyborg-foucault/#comment-369 Brad Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:10:24 +0000 http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/08/02/cyborg-foucault/#comment-369 To say that something has no genealogy, no time, no history to speak of, is only to say that it has not been spoken of. To say all genealogies are new is to waste words; all genealogies, of course, have only just now been spoken (or written, but that is another case entirely). And was anything ever really new for Nietzsche? Everything, conflicts and all, seems to be the result of a kind of flowering, a mixing of soils. A "cultivation," a "culture"? To say that something has no genealogy, no time, no history to speak of, is only to say that it has not been spoken of. To say all genealogies are new is to waste words; all genealogies, of course, have only just now been spoken (or written, but that is another case entirely).

And was anything ever really new for Nietzsche? Everything, conflicts and all, seems to be the result of a kind of flowering, a mixing of soils. A “cultivation,” a “culture”?

]]> By: John http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/08/02/cyborg-foucault/#comment-368 John Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:48:34 +0000 http://bananapeelproject.org/2009/08/02/cyborg-foucault/#comment-368 But what about a "transfiguration"? And I'm thinking of this both in the religious sense (see Matthew 17, Mark 9) and in the sense that Nietzsche uses it to describe the result of the conflict between the Dionysian and Apollonian. Does transfiguration represent the beginning of something entirely new? Something that has no genealogy or time. A complete break from the past and the beginning of a new genealogy. The only time that matters in a transfiguration is the break between what came before and what came after. But what about a “transfiguration”? And I’m thinking of this both in the religious sense (see Matthew 17, Mark 9) and in the sense that Nietzsche uses it to describe the result of the conflict between the Dionysian and Apollonian.

Does transfiguration represent the beginning of something entirely new? Something that has no genealogy or time. A complete break from the past and the beginning of a new genealogy. The only time that matters in a transfiguration is the break between what came before and what came after.

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