The Arts in NYC

At the beginning of this course I was extremely excited about all the arts I would be exposed to and how I would learn to appreciate each and every one of them as if I were a high-class socialite. Thus, when I walked into the MetOpera House with my ironed slacks, sleek dress shirt, and [...]

Ever since I’ve read Foucault, I’ve had the thought of normality versus abnormality stuck in my head for the longest time. One of Foucault’s main assertions is that abnormality defines normality, since we can only know what normal is by looking at what is abnormal. It is asserted, “The study of abnormality is one of [...]

In all honesty, I found it a little difficult to follow Foucault's reasoning. (Conversations with various graduate school students have left me reassured that I'm not the only one.) As I don't want to comment or remark on something which I may not fully understand, I only picked one area where I feel a little [...]

One of the great minds in history is known to be Michel Foucault. When reading the picture book about many of his ideas and absolute truth, to be honest I enjoyed the small book. It was entertaining to read and kept me occupied on the train as I watched people giving me strange looks for [...]

If you think about, society has always has it's rights and wrongs. And those are the absolute truths of that era. For example, 600 years ago, everyone believed that the earth was flat, and even before that people knew that the earth was the center of the universe. Let's take that thinking, the thinking that what [...]