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What does it mean to live in a space? And what do we do once we have recognized that the choices we make are not, after all, entirely our own? Are we left floating in a haze of it-doesn’t-matter? Are we left to choose between boundless freedom and the imprisonment of law? The choice between […]
What forms of subjecthood and subjectivity are available to us?
The question should not be, what is the “modern” subject or what is “modern” subjectivity, but rather what forms of subjecthood and subjectivity—what ways of being and of being with—are made possible in particular practices and sets of practices? We should be looking for multiple, contingent, […]
Genea-logos, the reason of birth
0 Comments Posted 07.01.2009 in Methodology, Writing, Philosophy, CultureGenealogy avoids the search for depth. Instead, it seeks the surfaces of events, small details, minor shifts, and subtle contours. It shuns the profundity of the great thinkers our tradition has produced and revered; its archenemy is Plato. (Dreyfus & Rabinow, Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 106)
To write genealogy is to skim along the surface […]
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