you had me at foucault

[indailylife]

This, too, is how disciplinary power works, by colonizing us from within, so we become the willing inhabitants of the worlds specified by our preferred narratives

Foucault, 1980 (via indailylife)

[fuckyeahdialectics]

1. The system reproduces its existence because it goes unrecognized. 2. The system brings about, through the reproduction of its existence, an effect of misrecognition.

Ranciere, Jacques, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, 1991, ‘Introduction’ p.xi-ii (via fuckyeahdialectics)

[youhadmeatfoucault]

nice friend person: hey, how've you been?

me: capitalism is crushing me. i am barely surviving. i am full of toxic resentment. i want revenge.

[shihlun]

Foucault’s polo neck, now on sale.

[youhadmeatfoucault]

El agotamiento significa que el repertorio de los posibles que teníamos almacenado se vacía, que abandonamos, lo desertamos. Significa también que todos los clichés sobre qué es lo que debemos sentir, pensar, hacer, cómo debemos amar, indignarnos, hacer la revolución, evocar el pueblo, también se han evaporado, dejándonos vacíos frente al mundo, sin mediaciones ni filtros. Es un encuentro con lo real, a partir de un vaciamiento, de una imposibilidad. Pero nada de eso lleva al llanto ni a la lamentación, mucho menos a la nostalgia, sino que nos fuerza, ya no a elegir entre los posibles existentes que se han agotado, sino a inventar un posible, a volvernos “videntes”, es decir, a vislumbrar potencias justamente a partir de la impotencia. Es un extraña manera de describir una época, pensarla desde el fondo del agotamiento, apoyarse en la impotencia para recusar la melancolía, la esperanza, la angustia o el voluntarismo. -Peter Pál Pelbart sobre" El agotado" de Deleuze.

[forgottengenres]

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”

Noam Chomsky (via shazia-r)

[saloandseverine]

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double (via saloandseverine)

[theduramater]

[foucault-the-haters-deactivated]

I dream of a world where encounters are less coded by the social, professional, cultural and linguistic universes. If I can allow myself to use a word that is no longer in fashion: less coded by class barriers.

Alain Badiou, ‘People cling onto identities… it is a world opposed to the encounter’ (via foucault-the-haters)

[descroissants-deactivated201609]

Power can dissemble and invert lived experience, how it appropriates slogans, struggles, and bodies, how it mouths the false humiliates of common sense, and how (as we are now seeing) its fear of change can detonate torrents of vindictiveness and victim blaming.

Barbara Kruger (via descroissants)

[mayhap]

“F as in Fidelity”

Gilles Deleuze: From A to Z with Claire Parnet Semiotext(e) and MIT Press

[yahia-muhammad-deactivated20170]

The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits u

Michel Foucault (via yahia-muhammad)

[theconquestofbed]

Zero or Conduct, Jean Vigo, 1933

[atlas-bugged]

Criticizing the course of a river means improving it, correcting it. Criticism of society is ultimately revolution; there you have criticism taken to its logical conclusion and playing an active part. A critical attitude of this type is an operative factor of productivity; it is deeply enjoyable as such, and if we commonly use the term ‘arts’ for enterprises that improve people’s lives why should art proper remain aloof from arts of this sort?

Bertolt Brecht (via darkvvaste)