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The game of Earthly Delights. Sexuality, identity and power in Michel Foucault. Reviewed.

reviewed by Zara Pfeiffer

"The more open the game, the more attractive and fascinating it is." (Michel Foucault)

The question of identity and sexuality, Michel Foucault is both fascinating and voyeuristic . reflects the theoretical play of the balance of power of his analysis of power in the specific power games of the SM clubs in San Francisco? Undoubtedly, the theory of Foucault can not be separated from that of the person and the life of Michel Foucault, one-sided focus was on life, neglecting the theory lose their initial appeal, but certainly fast. The
Anthology The game of Earthly Delights. Sexuality, identity and power in Michel Foucault, edited by Marvin Chlada and Marc-Christian fighters resisting the lure of short-term and presents the theory of Michel Foucault to the center of attention without hiding his life.

will be opened "The game of Earthly Delights" by Marc-Christian hunter with a comprehensive and not just for newbies Foucault recommended introduction to Michel Foucault's concept of power. The footnotes to the text-fireworks - 539 on 45 pages - the text sometimes confused when reading, but contains interesting references for interested Leser_innen and sources. The
subsequent demolition Concern for itself of Annette Schlemm the question of the art of living in the light of self-care and the Foucauldian subject constitution, however, is advised unfortunately a bit thin, possibly due to the brevity of the text of just 4 pages. In the not-easy-to-read review desires of the body without organs or desire? deals Marvin Chlada with Foucault's critique of the desire concept as expressed, inter alia, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Just as Foucault understand the liberation of the power rather than the opposite, but as an integral part of power, so is he not a question of desire and to rid desire, but rather to experiment with bodies and the pleasures and to enjoy other bodies and desires. Jürgen asks Mümken in Who am I? - What am I? basis of the terms sexual identity, sexual orientation and gender identity to the meaning of identity and gender in the work of Max Stirner and Michel Foucault, and contrasts them with each other. In orders of sexuality features Marc-Christian by hunters in the light of Foucault's reception of de Sade and Georges Bataille, Foucault's distinction between disciplinary power and sadistic SM subculture. The game ends with the text of the desires From the desire for entrepreneurial self-subject of Andrea D. Bührmann in which retraces the route from the subject of desire towards a neoliberal entrepreneurial self. Bührmann stressed that allows the Gouvernementalitätsvorlesungen inspired by Foucault's view of governmentality-studies a corresponding naturalizing and corresponding ontological perspective on current processes of individualization and subjectification.

The question raised by Foucault question of the relationship between sexuality, identity and power is examined in The game of Earthly Delights from different perspectives. The fact that the articles contained therein as to length, readability, Depth and ambition are very heterogeneous, both strength and weakness of the band, which is appropriate especially for a first introduction to the thinking of Michel Foucault. It should be noted also is that one's reading practice is the less sturdy envelope a little too clearly documented.

Marvin Chlada / Marc-Christian Hunter: The game of Earthly Delights. Sexuality, identity and power in Michel Foucault, Alibri Verlag, Aschaffenburg, 2008. 156 pages, 16, - €. ISBN 3-86569-031-9