Archives mensuelles : février 2018

VIRTUAL SEMINAR LOGIC OF SENSE is composed of thirty-four chapters, or « series of paradoxes », and five appendices. These chapters correspond to roughly the number of classes in an academic year, and so the book expresses an « ideal seminar » (Badiou’s term … Lire la suite →

OBFUSCATION The impression of lexical obfuscation that I describe comes after reading several of Stiegler’s books or after listening to several of his classes. One feels illuminated and inspired at first, but then the repetitious but un-illuminating use of an … Lire la suite →

Stiegler gets the notion of individuation from Simondon, who got it from Jung. However, I myself got it from Jung. This is my (unsystematic) precautionary criterion for adopting elements of Stiegler’s system: I adopt those aspects of thought and jargon … Lire la suite →

JARGON Bernard Stiegler spends almost as much time setting out his own theoretical vocabulary as he does enouncing and arguing for theses in the terms of that vocabulary. I make use of those elements of Stiegler’s vocabulary that refer back … Lire la suite →

Deleuze’s FOUCAULT is a crucial reference for situating, and for understanding in relation to contemporary philosophical concerns, Foucault’s posthumously published LES AVEUX DE LA CHAIR, the fourth volume in his history of sexuality project. Foucault has often been seen as … Lire la suite →

I think it is worthwhile unpacking Foucault’s concept of « triple determination » deployed at the beginning of LES AVEUX DE LA CHAIR because it may contain a useful key not only to the rest of his analysis but also to its … Lire la suite →

I will be summarising and commenting Les Aveux de la chair, Foucault’s fourth volume in the history of sexuality tetralogy philosophically. In this first substantial post I wish to show how the first few pages conform to the theses that can … Lire la suite →

French contents page: English Translation: CONTENTS Title Introductory Notice by Frédéric Gros I. The formation of a new experience Creation, procreation The painful baptism The second penance The art of arts II. Being a virgin Virginity and continence Of the … Lire la suite →

From Annex 1, which Frédéric Gros in his Introductory Notice hypothesises could have been intended as either the sketch of an introduction to the book or a personal synthesis, we can draw several guiding principles that Foucault wishes to demonstrate: … Lire la suite →

RIP VAN WINKLE: The fourth and final (?) volume, Les Aveux de la Chair (Confessions of the Flesh), of Michel Foucault’s projected series on the history of sexuality was published today. I downloaded it on my kindle this morning, and … Lire la suite →