May 2013
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“And you know, I think what most bothers those who are not gay about gayness is...”
– Foucault, “Sexual Choice, Sexual Act” (interview)
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All was a greyness, without direction, with no above or below, nature in a process of dissolution, in a state of pure dementia.
-Sebald, After Nature
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The panic-stricken kink in the neck to be seen in all of Grunewald’s subjects, exposing the throat and often turning the face towards a blinding light, is the extreme response of our bodies to the absence of balance in nature which blindly makes one experiment after another and like a senseless botcher undoes the thing it has only just achieved.
-Sebald, After Nature
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“I dream of the intellectual destroyer of evidence and universalities, the one...”
– Foucault, “End of the Monarchy of Sex” (interview)
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“To want not to think in terms of good and evil is to want not to think in terms...”
– Foucault, talk show interview
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For it is hard to discover the winged vertebrates of prehistory embedded in tablets of slate. But if I see before me the nervature of past life in one image, I always think that this has something to do with truth. Our brains, after all, are always at work on some quivers of self-organisation, however faint, and it is from this that an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more...
SORRY FOR ALL THE FOUCAULT
not sorry
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“There is in Nietzsche’s work a rustic simplicity, an outsideness, a kind of...”
– Foucault, “On Literature” (interview)
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Q: You’re always working at the boundary of the serious and the unserious. And sometimes it’s hard to follow you. MF: It makes me a little sad when I’m told that. All I want is that when someone does me the honour, the favour, gives me the pleasure of reading me, that they first of all understand exactly what I’m saying. Ultimately, I’d rather say less than not be...
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“The degree simply serves to create a kind of market value for knowledge, to make...”
– Foucault, talk show interview
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“We need to know why our society considers it so important to show that learning...”
– Foucault, talk show interview
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“What I do is a kind of historical fiction. In a sense I know very well that what...”
– Foucault, “Truth is in the Future”
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“Of course violence itself is terrible. But the deepest root of violence and its...”
– Foucault, “Truth is in the Future” (interview)
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of interest (for later)
“One thing struck me in the American review of my books, particularly the review of my book on prisons. They say I am trying to do the same thing as Erving Goffman in his work on asylums, that I try to do the same thing but not as well. I am not a social scientist. I don’t want to do the same thing. His problem is the way a certain type of institution works, the total...
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follow us as we (slowly) liveblog our very first reading of Heidegger’s Being and Time this summer. might be amazing! might be excruciating! definitely one for the baby books.
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“But my project is precisely to bring it about that they ‘no longer know...”
– Foucault, “The Impossible Prison”
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“Critique doesn’t have to be the premise of a deduction which concludes:...”
– Foucault, “The Impossible Prison”
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“To give some assistance in wearing away certain self-evidentnesses and...”
– Foucault, “The Impossible Prison” (interview)
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“Capitalism would have us believe that we only deserve to be here because of what...”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs (via satyacake) 