The great metaphor of the book that one opens, that one pores over and reads in order to know nature, is merely the reverse and visible side of another transference, and a much deeper one, which forces language to reside … Continue reading
Foucault
I’d been wondering what good all this Foucault might do me in the long run, aside from providing theoretical background for The Thesis. Then I ran across this, from So Is It Important to Think?, a 1981 interview with Foucault: … Continue reading
Who was that masked marketeer? Recent Top Secret Communiqu
We spent some time in Queer Theory talking about the place of talk shows in modern discourse, trying to decide when the Confessional becomes the Sideshow. I brought this up again Wednesday night when we were discussing The Repressive Hypothesis, … Continue reading
We’ve been starting out every seminar session with 15 minutes of writing. This is what I scribbled on Wednesday night: But for decades now, we have found it difficult to speak on the subject without striking a different pose: we … Continue reading
We’re also covering What Is An Author? this evening. I used it briefly in a paper on Creative Commons, and am still very interested in the implications different notions of authorship pose to Intellectual Property. Here’s what I have so … Continue reading
These are excerpts that I want to revisit later, since I’m convinced they apply to Intellectual Property issues that I’m interested in. Everything is from Rabinow’s The Foucault Reader. But it seems to me now that the notion of repression … Continue reading
Since we’re proceeding along with the first batch of readings for the Foucault Seminar, I thought I’d post my notes here. As this is my first time through many of these essays, it’ll most likely be a hodge-podge of synopses … Continue reading
We started the Foucault Reading Seminar last Wednesday. I’m looking forward to it, and not just because I was the one who suggested the class way back last fall. At the time, I was interested in Foucault’s relation to Queer … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
