Biopower with a capital B
Monday, May 7th, 2012
According to Michel Foucault, “biopower” emerged as the deployment of alliance and its complementary sovereign power over death (to allow or disallow life) shifted to the deployment of sexuality and accompanying power over life on the individual bodily level and on a larger population level (138-139). Foucault continues with that this power over life uses […]
Biopower with a capital B
Tags: Ambiguity, Complexity, Foucault, hermaphrodite, Middlesex, Power, Scientific
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Scientia Sexualis
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
In the third part of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault introduces the concepts of scientia sexualis, or “telling the truth of sex which are geared to a form of knowledge-power,” and its counterpart, ars erotica, or telling the truth of sex from “pleasure itself” (57-58). Foucault argues that Western civilization has adopted the scientia […]
Scientia Sexualis
Tags: Confession, Discourse, Foucault, Scientific
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