#Foucault

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EmoFoucault

Alright. Time to talk about Foucault and power briefly. I have work to do, but some of you need it. The originality in Foucault's notion of power lies in how

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ImReadinHere

The child's school day is structured exactly like an adults work day. 8 hour day, 15 minute break at 10.30 and, 45 minutes for lunch. In the class they must

A Xmas Douglas

alexxdouglas

It’s also odd how people fixate on these general claims Foucault occasionally made about ‘truth’. In his later work, his main claim was that power often *creates* the phenomena we

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EmoFoucault

Alright. Thread. I’m gonna point by point here. Sentence by sentence. Let’s go.https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1339877451393077249 The utilization of Foucault’s preface to Anti-Oedipus is an odd one and doesn’t indicate any

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

They don't believe truth, especially absolute truth, is accessible. This misunderstands them completely. What exists is power, not least the power to decide what will be considered "true." The basis

Anna Llewellyn

DrAnnaLlewellyn

A thread - some thoughts on Liz Truss and that Foucault speech, which has really troubled me. So, anyone who has even a miniscule understanding of Foucault, would agree that

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

If we're gonna talk about mental illness/neurodivergence and capitalism please let's talk about how capitalism makes it absolutely impossible for people to actually get help Let's talk about industrial psychiatry.

Rukhsana Sukhan

RukhsanaSukhan

Le Sigh. Just ... Le Sigh. Can someone please save HP from herself. OMG this is a terrible terrible terrible piece. And also hilarious.a thread ...https://thecritic.co.uk/the-enduring-legacy-of-michel-foucault/ "Postcolonial theory, q

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alexxdouglas

In the review mentioned here, Warburton states that Pluckrose and Lindsay "have done their homework, and can’t fairly be accused of a superficial understanding of the thinkers they engage with".

Barnaby Raine

BarnabyRaine

THREAD: Have you ever thought, "I feel miserable, is there something political about that?" Almost three centuries of theory says there might be - that capitalism remakes us.I gave a

jack🌹

thedialogist

Tbh, I wouldn’t say that the problem w Barron isn’t that he doesn’t understand “postmodernism” (whatever that means), but rather that he himself is unknowingly postmodern (in the Jamesonian sense)

Wait_What_Memes Kodak

wait_what_memes

1.Ready to learn?Want to truly understand what is going on?Want to understand why a “virus” that is about as dangerous as the cold still has half the country shut down?Well

Michael Marshall Smith

ememess

QAnon, possibly deliberately, helped pave the way for Trump’s attempt to steal the election: by training the MAGA crowd into developing a passion for complicated, angry, nonsensical and evidence-free conspiracies

Eric Knowles

eric_knowles

So much of the “culture war” is, at base, a disagreement over James Baldwin’s view of history: “History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to

Paul Mason

paulmasonnews

1/ Liz Truss speech signals Tories planning a sustained onslaught on anti-racism, feminism, LGBTQ+ ... but I'm not going to resist it by defending Foucault. Postmodernism was a dead end

Egg God

SweetEggPerson

Therapy is the reified, market version of what a real human relation should provide. Instead of talking through your problems with friends who love you and want to help you,

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