I know I’m bringing up the rear with the third post of the week, but hopefully I can add to Sam and Richard’s discussion on act vs. identity by discussing the deployment of alliance – specifically, the duality of licit vs. illicit acts. Although, as Professor Quinby mentioned, Hawthorne is writing from a mid-19th century […]
For me, parts 4 and 5 of The History of Sexuality were harder to dissect than the first 3. It felt as though, at times, the discussion of power – the use of the word over and over again, the statements like ‘power is this and power is not that, power does this but power […]
Before I get to discussing the first half of The History of Sexuality, I want to introduce the idea of the three faces of power, analyzed and summarized by Steven Lukes in Power: A Radical View. It was one of the texts used in the PoliSci class Richard and I took last semester, and I […]
The attempt to define sexuality is to map out its various and even contradictory characteristics. However, the attempt to define sexuality is not where our efforts should lie; Instead of questioning what sexuality is we must instead ask ourselves why such emphasis is placed on defining it. Why Sexuality? Who is compelling us to feel […]
(Not sure exactly how to begin the discussion but I’ll jump right in.) No amount of briefly excerpted Foucault could have prepared me for jumping right into this major work after a month long break from academic-style writing. On Thursday Professor Quinby told us to be prepared and okay with not understanding everything that we […]
