Re: [Foucault-L] Introduction-Sam Taylor


--- SAM G TAYLOR <taylorsam35@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks for letting me know, I'm at the point where I
> need to discuss Foucault's alternative to violent
> revolts.
> I've wanted to pick that book up, I guess I have to
> now. Does Foucault examine the revolutionary subject
> as a type or does he examine the subject as a
> starting point for revolutionary change (Like
> struggles against modes of subjectiion in the
> Subject and Power).
>
> This leads me to a more general question, can anyone
> think of an example of innovative subjectivity, like
> the type alluded to in What is Enlightenment?
> â??itâ??s the destruction of what we are as well as
> the creation of a completely different thing, a
> total innovation.â??

Artuad conceived of a 'theatre of blood' in which
bodies are crushed and produced. And although this
bloody theatre of life comprehends 'violent revolts',
such as the paroxysms of madness which artuad wanted
to express on stage, it is only to the extend that
such a violant eruption is a lyrical protest against
living in impossible situations. Resistence, like
resilience, is natural. This is the point which we
must understand foucault as rendering when he said
that nothing we ever do, have ever done, or are
capable of doing, is, properly speaking, contrary to
our nature.

> I relate this quote to another in the same piece:
> "We must transform the field of social institutions
> into a field of experimentation, in order to
> determine which levers to turn and which bolts to
> loosen in order to bring about the desired effects."
> What type of experimentation could Foucault be
> referring to?

The kind of experimentation which disorganizes the
rules of the senses as the poet becomes a seer of
impossible sights. He is exhorting you to engage the
world which draws you out of yourself, to loose
yourself in it, like alice in wonderland- a wondrous
land indeed!- an emerge from it- like alice in
wonderland- as one wakes from a dream.


> Thanks!
> Sam
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <davidleecarlson@xxxxxxx>
> To: <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:13:40 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Introduction-Sam Taylor
>
> Sam:
>
> Sounds great--you may want to read the new lectures
> (1981-1982) "The Hernanuetics of the Subject" where
> he poses the question about the revolutionary
> subject--it's an area that hasn't been written about
> much!
>
> Best,
>
> dlc
>
>
> David Lee Carlson, Ed.D
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> Department of Curriculum and Teaching
> Hunter College, CUNY
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAM G TAYLOR <taylorsam35@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 12:27:53 -0600
> Subject: [Foucault-L] Introduction-Sam Taylor
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm a senior at Utah Valley State College finishing
> my last semester. I became
> interested in Foucault last year in a class
> dedicated to his works. I'm
> currently writing a senior thesis that examines
> Foucault's enigma of revolution
> and its relation to subjectivity and freedom.
> Ultimately, I compare these ideas
> with Kant's prohibition against revolution, his
> ideas concerning subjectivity
> and freedom. I'm currently working on their
> difference conceptions of the State
> and how the individual is constituted in relation to
> the State.
>
> I joined this list to look at Foucault in fresh and
> intersting ways.
>
> Thanks, I hope to read many interesting
> conversations.
>
> Sam Taylor
>
>
>
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