Hello fellow list members,
I recently joined the list and having watched how things work I now feel
comfortable enough to introduce myself. I am a Ph.D student at Monash
University (Melbourne, Australia) and am doing research on the concept of
the subject as it appears in contemporary thinkers like Michel Foucault,
Charles Taylor, and Gianni Vattimo.
As far as Foucault goes I am particularly interested in two aspects of his
work. Firstly, the centrality of transgression in his early work,
especially with the way transgression can be enacted in language to point to
some sort of experience outside the subject, to the point of eclipsing the
subject. Secondly, the emphasis on transformation in his late work which
takes the form of an ascetic-aesthetic intensification of the self's
relationship to itself as a possible way out of techniques of domination and
as experimentation with ways of living freedom.
Sebastian Gurciullo
Send mail to: sebtempo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently joined the list and having watched how things work I now feel
comfortable enough to introduce myself. I am a Ph.D student at Monash
University (Melbourne, Australia) and am doing research on the concept of
the subject as it appears in contemporary thinkers like Michel Foucault,
Charles Taylor, and Gianni Vattimo.
As far as Foucault goes I am particularly interested in two aspects of his
work. Firstly, the centrality of transgression in his early work,
especially with the way transgression can be enacted in language to point to
some sort of experience outside the subject, to the point of eclipsing the
subject. Secondly, the emphasis on transformation in his late work which
takes the form of an ascetic-aesthetic intensification of the self's
relationship to itself as a possible way out of techniques of domination and
as experimentation with ways of living freedom.
Sebastian Gurciullo
Send mail to: sebtempo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx