13 a 15/06/2008 @-Frase leve da Sambu: “Quando eu vejo algumas pessoas perderem oito horas, dez horas de seu tempo perguntando para as pessoas coisas que não têm nenhuma importância, a não ser para justificar a própria reunião, eu fico com pena. Fico com pena.” Presidente Lula @-Sobre a frase de cima: Presidente Lula, assim você magoa! @-Frase crível da Sambu: “Eu já
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If you sit and watch the Foucault pendulum for an hour, you will “see” that the plane of the swing of the iron ball slowly shifts anti-clockwise by about 8.4 degrees per hour. This is an optical illusion. The building is actually shifting “under” the Foucault Pendulum!
The Foucault Pendulum (support + wire + [...]
Otro uso de la historia: la disociación sistemática de nuestra identidad. Porque esta identidad, bien débil por otra parte, que intentamos asegurar y ensamblar bajo una máscara, no es más que una parodia: el plural la habita, numerosas almas se pelean en ella; los sistemas se entrecruzan y se dominan unos a los otros. Cuando se ha estudiado la historia, uno se siente “feliz” por oposició
Foucault's Cat (2000) From Poops Upside Ya Head: We had a bit of an incident with our cat Foucault yesterday. After trying to get out the front door and being shooed away by Pat, he got seriously agitated and Eleanor made the mistake of trying to interact with him. Foucault attacked her. [...] Could you find it in your heart to adopt Foucault? He's really not a bad guy -- he just doesn't p
Descripción¿Cuál es la forma de represión más insoportable para un estudiante de bachiller de hoy: la autoridad familiar, la cuadriculación cotidiana que la policía ejerce sobre la vida de todo hombre, la organización y la disciplina de los Institutos, o esta pasividad que os impone la prensa, incluso posiblemente un periódico como Actuel? La represión en los Institutos: es evidente porque se ejerce sobre un grupo que se esfuerza por actuar. Es más violenta, y se siente más vivamente. Conviene no olvidar la calle, los cacheos del Barrio Latino, los policías que te bloquean la moto con su coche para ver si tienes droga.Esta presencia continua: no puedo sentarme en el suelo sin que un hombre con kepis me obligue a levantarme. Dicho esto, la represión en la enseñanza, la información orientada, es quizás peor...Descargar AquíTe Invito a Comentar este Libro
Call for PapersThe Fifth Annual SOCIAL THEORY FORUMApril 16 and 17, 2008University of Massachusetts BostonA Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New MillenniumKeynote speakers include:James Bernauer (Boston College)Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University)How relevant is Foucault’s social thought to the world we inhabit today?Foucault is best remembered for his historical inquiries into the origins of “disciplinary” society in a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries.Today, however, under the conditions of global modernity, the relevance of his contribution is often called into question.With the increasing ubiquity of markets, the break up of centralized states and the dissolution of national boundaries, the world today seems far removed from the bounded, disciplinarysocieties Foucault described in his most famous books.Far from disciplinary, society today is “post panoptic,” as Nancy Fraser has argued — in a move which
In keeping with October’s issue — Education — a quote from Michel Foucault, from his 1975 work Discipline and Punish. The context is the advent of provincial and Christian elementary schools, founded in the seventeenth-century.
“…the end laid down for primary education was to be, among other things, to ‘fortify’, to ‘develop the body’, to prepare the child ‘for a future in some mechanical work’, to give him ‘an observant eye, a sure hand and prompt habits’. The disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals … hence the slow loosening of their kinship with religious regularities and enclosures. Hence also their rooting in the most important, most central and most productive sectors of society. They become attached to some of the great essential functions: factory production, the transmission of knowledge, the diffusion of aptitude and skills, the war-machine. Hence, too, t
No hay que describir la sexualidad, como un impulso reacio, extraño por naturaleza e indócil por necesidad a un poder que, por su lado, se encarniza en someterla y a menudo fracasa en su intento de dominarla por completo. Aparece ella más bien como un punto de pasaje para las relaciones de poder, particularmente denso: [...]
Author: Roger Alan DeaconPaperback: 306Publisher: Marquette University Press (November 2003) Language: EnglishISBN: 0874626617 This book explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. Specifically, it asks whether and how the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change, can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualisation of power relations and his account of the subject. Firstly, it is shown how Foucault's genealogy, a hybrid and polemical approach, aims to call into question the theories and practices which underpin the present. Genealogy problematizes what we have come to take for granted, and in so doing it requires that we rethink not only the nature and history of Western philosophical thought but also the role of intellectuals. To attempt to write a history of truth is to ask what one can know of a concept which structures the very l
Au musée des Arts et Métiers, à Paris, un jour du mois de mai, j’ai vu la terre tourner, grâce à l’expérience du pendule de Foucault qui y est réalisée (et dont on trouvera ici ou ici l’explication - pour ceux qui la comprennent !).
C’est l’expérimentatrice, avec son joli accent venu d’on ne sait où, qui me l’a dit.
Et le plus drôle, c’est que je l’ai crue.
“Alors, maintenant qu’on a dit tout ça… Vous voyez, vous l’entendez, les petites quilles, elles tombent.
Si les petites quilles tombent, c’est parce que, à chaque fois, elles sont poussées par ce pendule qui les pousse, qui les fait tomber.
Maintenant, on vient de le voir, le pendule, il est dans un plan qui ne varie pas, qui ne bouge pas.
Et pourtant, ces petites quilles, à chaque fois, elles se retrouvent quand même devant ce pendule.
Alors, si c’est pas le plan du pendule qui bouge, c’est peut-être le support sur l
