Tag: Michel Foucault

• Tales told by idiots?

  I am as much a part of Nature as Nature is a part of me, but each of us plays a different role depending upon the script I think. And yet, although Macbeth thought that each of us was but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, the player does…

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  February 14, 2024

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  animal trials, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, ethics, intent, Justice, laws, Michel Foucault, Nature, trials

• All hoods make not monks

  Don’t you sometimes wonder what normal is? I mean is it ‘fitting in’ -being ‘average’- or is it  simply not being subject to undue attention in a supermarket checkout line? And even if you don’t ‘fit in’, suppose everybody in your family also looks like you? Does that make the whole family abnormal, or just,…

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  November 17, 2021

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  abnormal, average, Jonathan Sholl, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault, normal, pandemic, patterns, Sara Moghaddam-Taaheri, social bubbles, social-distance

• When I was at home, I was in a better place

  I am a railway child -or, more specifically, I am the child of a railway father. And as a result the family was transferred to a new location every few years; I have lived in almost every province of Canada at one time or other, so home for me was always a shifting target -a…

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  September 11, 2019

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  anthropology, Cheryl Mattingly, ethnography, home, homelessness, Johannes Lenhard, Mary Douglas, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics Economy and Social Change, Michel Foucault, railway child, spaces, The Paradox of Hope

• That way madness lies

  To portray something -to make it believable- there has to be at least some understanding by the audience of what is being portrayed. Much in the sense, I suppose, that was suggested in the 1974 paper in The Philosophical Review by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel, asking what it would be like to be a…

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  April 24, 2019

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  BBC Culture, cinema, electroconvulsive therapy, insanity, Kahlil Gibran, madness, Madness and Civilization, mental illness, Michel Foucault, Renaissance, The Philosophical Review, Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat?, Wikipedia