#foucaut

[ferreiralex1-blog]

Elite Squad, inspirado en la película y la música.

Elite Squad, inspirado en la película y la música.

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Elite Squad, inspired by the movie and music!

Elite Squad, inspired by the movie and music!

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[itsmightyfunny]

In what does [philosophy] consist, if not the endeavor to know how to and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, instead of legitimating what is already known? ...It is entitled to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it.

Foucault

[athousandgateaux]

One remains attached to a certain image of power-law, of power-sovereignty, which was traced out by the theoreticians of right and the monarchic institution. It is this image that we must break free of, that is, of the theoretical privilege of law and sovereignty, if we wish to analyze power within the concrete and historical framework of its operation. We must construct an analytics of power that no longer takes law as a model and a code.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: Vol. 1 pg. 90

[foucay]

Virtual Panopticon

"‘Conscious and permanent visibility’…’ Apparantly this is what Mark Zuckerberg thinks social media is all about. By making our actions and shares visible to a crowd, social media exposes us to a kind of virtual Panopticon. This is not just because our activities are monitored and recorded by the social media service for the purposes of producing market analysis or generating targeted advertising. For the most part, we can and do ignore this kind of data harvesting. The surveillance that directly affects us and impacts on our behaviour comes from the people with whom we share."

https://philosophyforchange.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/foucault-and-social-media-life-in-a-virtual-panopticon/

Becoming an identity online seems very much like becoming an actor on stage. It is so easy to remove the authenticity of the person sharing it due to the facelessness of online and have it just become an act of performance, loosely tied to the sharer.

I don't think that this kind of subjectivity is necessarily oppressive, but it is a definite possibility that people will lose their own sense of individual identity if they get too caught up in the act of virtual performance.

[shrinkrants]

While for some the jury might be still out on 'Foucault the historian', there ought to be less reluctance to acknowledge the contribution which Foucault, and those influenced by his work, have made to the method of enquiry he described as 'histories of the present' - the use of historical investigation for the purposes of diagnosing problems in the here and now.

David McCallum, Mental health, criminality and the human sciences, in Foucault: Health and Medicine. edited by Alan Petersen and Robin Bunton. New York, Routledge. pp 53 - 54.