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I’d like to look here a little more at Foucault’s claim that Heideggerian ontology is internalist (see my discussion here), because I think it makes an important point about the political nature of context-setting. Although questions of context are of course very difficult, one can quite plausibly propose that Being and Time begins in Plato…
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At the beginning of a 1974 interview (D&E II, 521), M. D’Eramo puts the following question to Foucault: “you always start your analyses at the end of the Middle Ages, without ever speaking of antiquity, but it seems to me that ancient Greece is important for constructing what you call an ‘archaeology of knowledge.’ Are…
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Unlike Derrida, with whom he had frequent, highly public polemics, Foucault says relatively little about Heidegger. Much of that is incidental: in a 1983 interview, for example, while talking about the postwar influence of Sartre, he notes parenthetically that “the roots of Sartre, after all, are Husserl and Heidegger, who were hardly public dancers” (Aesthetics,…
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By Gordon Hull The Affordable Care Act was in the Supreme Court again today, this time for oral argument in King v. Burwell. For those who don’t follow the ACA’s legal woes, the challenge in Burwell is this: under the ACA, states are supposed to establish exchanges where citizens can purchase healthcare on the individual…
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The FCC decided today to treat the Internet as a public utility and to (therefore) enforce net neutrality. This means that ISP’s won’t be able to favor one form of content over another by offering (for example) higher transmission rates for a fee. It also means that ISP’s can’t interfere with the transmission of content…
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By Gordon Hull In an earlier post, I took some initial steps toward reading Foucault’s last two lecture courses, The Government of Self and Others (GS) and The Courage of Truth (CT), in which he studies the ancient Greek concept of parrhesia. As I noted last time, one of the things Foucault finds is a…
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So Brian has decided, in his latest “issues in the profession” thread, to recognize the following question as worthy of note and discussion: AnonUntenured said… Can someone explain the Leigh Johnson mystery: http://www.readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore.com/p/curriculum-vitae_16.html How do you go from apparent tenure denial at one obscure college to a tenure-track job at another obscure college with almost no publications?…
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By Gordon Hull We’ve all heard that regulations are bad, because they interfere with businesses doing what they want (rules about dumping toxic chemicals get in the way of dumping toxic chemicals. Laws against murder hamper the business model of assassins. And so on.). New North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis made the media rounds this…
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Foucault’s last lecture courses at the Collège de France – recently published as The Government of Self and Others [GS] and The Courage of Truth [CT] – are interesting for a number of reasons. One is of course they offer one of the best glimpses we have of where his thought was going at the…
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By Gordon Hull No, this is not clickbait. Sometimes, the headline tells the story. Gregory Holt, aka Abdul Maalik Muhammad (the Court uses the “also known as” language when referring to him, and I am not sure about the status of the two different names), an inmate in an Arkansas state prison, wanted to grow…
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