Giorgi

['Member']Joined: January 18, 2021 at 15:26Last active: January 24, 2021 at 05:571 discussions16 comments

Location: Belgium

Bio

Born in Georgia (The Country! Not the State!), travelled the world. Tried all the drugs, studied everything from Music, Film, Graphic Design, Psychology, Logic, Mathematics, History, etc.

Overall, lean to the left of the political spectrum.

L-O-V-E Bill Hicks comedy.

Favourite Philosopher

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Husserl

Favourite Quotations

“Anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.” ? Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”? Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.” ? Bill Hicks

Discussions (1)

Michel Foucault, History, Genealogy, Counter-Conduct and Techniques of the Self

January 21, 2021 at 09:50 36 comments Ethics

Comments

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Power constitutes the subject, while at the same time testifying to the fleeting nature of subjectivity (a non-subjectivity of sorts), since power its...

January 23, 2021 at 22:09

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Alright so, 1. Foucault is not a structuralist. 2. Foucault goes beyond Heidegger (so not everything that Heidegger stood for is a given for Foucault)...

January 23, 2021 at 21:45

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I don't see how temporality constitutes power, but I do see the reverse. The power-relations in the present determine how we feel, perceive, understan...

January 23, 2021 at 20:46

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Power does NOT require a foundation. It operates effectively without a ground or an essence. It is not based on anything. I'm sorry, but I do not unde...

January 23, 2021 at 19:37

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I don't see how delving deeper into something is a way of "avoiding" it? Power is not an object, it is a force, a relation and context is everything. ...

January 23, 2021 at 19:33

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That's super-general but I'll try to give you some kind of an answer. I just recently quit a job as a content writer in Scaled Access. It paid really ...

January 23, 2021 at 19:25

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Indeed! Deployed in Leuven. ^_^

January 23, 2021 at 19:13

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I think the Foucaultian response would be "What body?". The body of the corporate establishment? Of the docile worker? The school-boy? The police offi...

January 23, 2021 at 19:13

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That is precisely the type of resistance that I am interested in. I myself have refused many luxuries and comforts to investigate this on my own. Of c...

January 22, 2021 at 16:07

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I'm afraid I'm not competent enough to talk about Merleau-Ponty just yet, I'm focusing on Husserl. But I do believe that an embodied subject is still ...

January 22, 2021 at 16:01

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I think the objection from the omnipresence of power can only be used as an effective argument against Foucault, if we forget that for Foucault, power...

January 22, 2021 at 15:22

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That goes without saying, but you see, phenomenology posits a theory of the subject and that offers an epistemic framework for grounding morality late...

January 22, 2021 at 04:19

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I have often heard that criticism myself. Very common in these debates. I'm sure you know Foucault's answer, but it's good to re-iterate. Precisely be...

January 21, 2021 at 20:54

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Absolutely. Especially the pace at which Foucault's discourse is being appropriated and re-deployed by both governments and corporations. I see resear...

January 21, 2021 at 16:25

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Excellent points. I wish I was more up to date with current events. Fortunately I am lucky enough to isolate and just do the research. In a way, this ...

January 21, 2021 at 13:00

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Hey so, I don't know how to attach files in this forum. But if you could visit my medium account (sorry to be "marketing" my work this way), some of m...

January 18, 2021 at 15:41