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Il faut défendre la société. Joseph W.H. Lough, Ph.D. Filosofski fakultet Tuzla Blog: http://www.newconsensus.org/LIT5 Twitter: @jwhlough email: joseph.lough@gmail.com phone: +387 603375497 Office Hours: 10-Noon, MW, Urban. Review. What are we doing here?
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Il faut défendre la société • Joseph W.H. Lough, Ph.D. • Filosofski fakultet Tuzla • Blog: http://www.newconsensus.org/LIT5 • Twitter: @jwhlough • email: joseph.lough@gmail.com • phone: +387 603375497 • Office Hours: 10-Noon, MW, Urban
Review • What are we doing here? • The collective character of knowing and doing • This will change • It will not change without us
Review • Gymnasium in a box • the birth of time • the isolation of the sublime value form of the commodity from its material form of appearance • capitalism is not an ideology; the naturalization of capitalism is an ideology
Preview • Why Michel Foucault? • Why Il faut défendre société? • M Foucault’s migration
Il faut défendre société • Is Michel Foucault English? • Why M Foucault in English Lit? • M Foucault migrated; from what to what?
Il faut défendre société • Against what position is M Foucault arguing in chapter two? • . . . in chapter four? • . . . in chapter eight?
Il faut défendre société • What are “power, right, and truth”? • How are they related?
Il faut défendre société • Why “western societies”? • Why E Husserl and M Heidegger? • Review: • who were the tyrants? • who were the oligarchs? • oikonomia; why politeia? • foundation of Roman/Chinese/Indian/Aztec societies?
Il faut défendre société • What are M Foucault’s precautions? • focus on the capillary; • focus on the surface or object, not the subject; • do not privilege an oppositional framework of domination • the distribution of power is neither democratic nor anarchic – we are agents of power • instruments form and accumulate power
Il faut défendre société • How are time/labor, commodities/wealth related?
Il faut défendre société • How does the transition from sovereignty to power privilege discipline over right? • What is the form of domination to which M Foucault calls attention? • What must we do? • Do you agree? • What insight does this give us into cultural production?
Preview • American Corner, 11 am, Slavoj Žižek, Pervert’s Guide to Ideology