Archive for the 'Power' Category
Like Foucault and those who have followed him, I am interested in the “how” of power. This form of power is played out both between and within individuals, and it is made necessary and rendered visible by the irreducible materiality of psychopharmaceutical technologies. Revealing and tracing these inter- and intra-personal technologies is a crucial first […]
Looking over Foucault’s ingenious structural history of medical practice, The Birth of the Clinic (1963; English translation 1973) I was struck by how well Foucault’s early work draws together communication, critical theory, and the anthropology of medicine. The study of communication–language, symbols, discourses–is at the heart of any serious attempt to understand–to set apart, to […]
At least, if that means anything any more. If everything’s political, nothing is.
Except that’s wrong. “Politics” is not a uniform field. It is a set of always uneven relations, unable to be reduced to a mere adjective. Something can not be “more” or “less” political, just as something can not be “more” or “less” real, […]
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