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Michel
Foucault (1926
- 1984)
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 Power/Knowledge
: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by
Michel
Foucault
Foucault interprets his writings about
sexuality, politics and punishment stressing the contribution of
each to the portrait of society he is compiling.
"Some serious food for thought here. Not
only is the power to define madness, criminality, and sexuality
addressed, but also the active use of criminals, and sex, to
suppress and subjugate the populace. Somewhat more difficult to
wade through but similar to Norman Cousins, it helped provoke my
thinking on how top-down unilateral command based on secrets is
inevitably going to give way to bottom-up multicultural
decision-making by the people based on open sources evenly shared
across networks. This is really very heavy stuff, and it helps
call into question the "rationality" of both the
Washington-based national security policymaking process, and the
"rationality" of spending $30 billion a year on secrets
in contrast to what that $30 billion a year might buy in terms of
openly-available insights and overt information
peacekeeping." -- Robert Steele
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Website dedicated to
Foucault from Casey Alt
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This might serve as the ideal motto for a
dedicated Foucault website, were it not for the context, where one
also finds advice that seems to bar Foucauldians from being
biblical: "But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies,
dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable
and futile." (Titus 3:9) For those who are not phobic about
juxtaposing discipline and knowledge, love, hate, and the
stupidity of genealogies, Hydra presents the bibliographical
treasures of the Bibliothéque Salchoir and other resources for
Foucault readers and scholars.
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Site Includes:
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FOUCAULT is an electronic forum for discussion
and experimentation rooted in the philosophy of the philosopher
Michel Foucault. FOUCAULT is an open list - all interested parties
are invited and encouraged to participate in posting and
discussion.
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Michel Foucault's "The History of
Sexuality" pioneered queer theory. In it, he builds an
argument grounded in a historical analysis of the word
"sexuality" against the common thesis that sexuality
always has been repressed in Western society. Quite the contrary:
since the 17th century, there has been a fixation with sexuality
creating a discourse around it. It is this discourse that has
created sexual minorities.
Contents
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This site contains information and resources on
the famous French thinker Michel Foucault (1926 -1984) and on
research inspired by his work.
Site Includes:
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This site is dedicated to exploring the work of
French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault. The site is
produced and maintained by Ben
Attias.
Site Includes:
The Michel Foucault Discussion Lists at CSUN
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The aim of the tribunal is an offensive against
forced institutionalization and treatment and the currently
accepted medical term for madness which results in persons being
stripped of their self-determination and the very essence of their
dignity by medical academicians who have their own particular view
on society and who pursue pecuniary interests in the exercise of
their profession. The justice system works hand in hand as an
accomplice to these academicians and acts as a legalizing body. As
a result, psychiatry is the one large domain in society which is
excluded from all social controls, to which every executive power
in a democratic constitutional state is normally subject.
Psychiatry is after all not a penal institution,
but nevertheless open to the arbitrariness of doctors with such
uncivilized powers at their disposal such as physical punishment
(e.g. being strapped to a bed) and the use of personality-changing
drugs. All this is diametrically opposed to the freedom-creating
functions of a modern democratic state.
Against this background a new concept for
madness should be found to oppose this situation and which comes
to terms with Foucault's
interpretation of madness.
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A site dedicated to works by and about Foucault.
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Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC --
Archives)
9, rue Bleue
75009 Paris
FRANCE
tel: (33) 1 53 34 23 23
fax: (33) 1 53 34 23 00
Contact Albert Dichy at albert.dichy@imec-archives.com
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This site, among other things, includes lectures
given by Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley.
Discourse and truth: the problematization of parrhesia.
(six lectures given at the University of California at Berkeley, Oct-Nov.
1983) Ed. by Joseph Pearson in 1985 :
"The text was compiled from tape-recordings made of
six lectures delivered, in English, by Michel Foucault at the University
of California at Berkeley in the Fall Term of 1983. The lectures were
given as part of Foucault's seminar, entitled "Discourse and
Truth". Since Foucault did not write, correct, or edit any part of
the text which follows, it lacks his imprimatur and does not present his
own lecture notes. What is given here constitutes only the notes of one of
his auditors. Although the present text is primarily a verbatim
transcription of the lectures, repetitive sentences or phrases have been
eliminated, responses to questions have been incorporated--whenever
possible--into the lectures themselves, and numerous sentences have been
revised --all in the hope of producing a more readable set of
notes."
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