Sunday, December 21, 2008

How Are Fence Leaners Installed

heterotopias - with the ships dream

"In the colony we have a heterotopia that is, as naive enough to want to achieve an illusion. In the brothel we have, however, a heterotopia that is subtle and clever enough to dispel the reality only by the power of illusion to want to. And if you consider that ships big ships of the 19th Century, a piece are floating space ships places without a place to rely entirely on themselves, self-contained and also the endless sea that travel from port to port, from guard to guard, from brothel to brothel until the colonies to to get the most precious thing to authentic gardens just described, it is clear why the boat for 16 of our civilization, at least since the Century not only have been the main vehicle for economic development but also the largest reservoir of the imagination. The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. Civilizations that have no ships are like children whose parents do not have a double bed, on which they can play. Then dry up your dreams. In place of adventure where does the spying and the place of the glorious Freu Beuter the ugly police "
. [Michel Foucault: The heterotopias]

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Does Guitarists Wear Bandana ?

Michel Foucault: Power and Freedom

If the resistance is also part of the power and this strengthens possibly without us the ever notice how then is it still politically obstructive action possible? On this issue, the debate go on a first reading of "The will to knowledge" with the feeling of each step we would inevitably be more entangled in the power networks.
Well, the first reading and the desperate knowledge are now also back a few years. The theoretical confusion and inability to act was certainly not unimportant for the questioning of one's actions.

"One should also note that there may be relations of power only to the extent to which subjects are free. If one of them completely at the disposal of others and would become his cause would be a subject on which this boundless and could exercise unlimited violence, there would be no power relations. This may be a power relationship, it requires so on both side of a specific form of freedom. Even if the power relationship is completely out of balance when you can really say that one all the power held by the other, so the power can be on the other exercise only to the extent that this is the possibility remains to be to kill, to jump out the window or the other to kill. This means that in power relations necessarily are ways of resistance, because if there is no possibility of resistance - of violent resistance, flight, guile, strategies, reverse the situation - there, then there would be no power relations. Against this general background, I refuse to answer the question that makes me sometimes ". There But if power is everywhere, then there is no resistance," I reply: If it Machtbeziehugen are pervading the social fabric, then because there is freedom everywhere. Now there is in fact rule states. In many cases, the power relations are reinforced such that they are asymmetrical in the long term and the margin of freedom is extremely limited. [...] In such a situation, the rule must be to all these questions, depending on the type and the precise form Herrchaft the answer to each specific manner. The claim, however: "You see, power is everywhere, therefore there is no room for freedom", seems completely inappropriate. Man I can not ascribe to the notion that might is an Herrschaftssysem that controls everything and leaves no room for freedom "
. [Michel Foucault: The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom, Dits et Ecrits IV]

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Movable Arm Trebuchet

debate Foucault vs Chomsky

Macht und Gerechtigkeit. Ein StreitgesprÃĪch zwischen Michel Foucault und Noam Chomsky The debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky in 1971, moderated by Fons Elders and on Dutch television, entitled "On the nature of human beings: justice versus power "was broadcasted, is now on orange press under the title" Power and justice. been a debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky published.

The assertion " orange-press sets this impressive document of recent history of philosophy for the first time on Michel Foucault: Dits et Ecrits II
German before" does not quite (the more disappointing when it is written off simply as a k of Adi Quarti in ). As it has probably saved the trouble of flipping through the "Dits et Ecrits " by Foucault, which are in German by Suhrkamp Verlag. In the second volume under the number 132 can also be the talk of the two looked up (as it has since 2002!). Well. Easy to lift as the "Dits et Ecrits" (and cheaper) to issue orange press is read once and - no matter where - well worth it. Promised. And who wants

read the whole, not just watch them, which can .