On the specific intellectual, Foucault and Oppenheimer.
On the specific intellectual, Foucault and Oppenheimer.
Gordon Hull, Signal or Noise? Foucault and Communication Theory (Part 1), New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 13 July 2023 Last time, I offered a quick synopsis of Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s excellent new book Code. Here, I’d like to track one specific Foucault reference in it. Geoghegan takes Lévi-Strauss’s Savage Mind as a central text …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Mathematics as a Social Practice, Non, 16 July 2023. […] Mathematics is performed. But the performance is oftentimes an effect, or an unintended consequence of how much power has been delegated to its authority as an institution. The dictatorship of numbers has become a regime of truth and a type of governmentality by …
Giorgi Vachnadze, The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence, Non, 15 July 2023 I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how would that make …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Biometric Technology And The Theory Of Human Capital, Non, 8 July 2023 Authentication and Verification: Defining the Problem Throughout his career, one of the central concerns for Foucault’s work was to investigate, analyze and offer a genealogical account of truth-telling as a mode of subjectivation. The notion of Biopolitics implies many different ways …
Gabriel Rockhill, The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback, Monthly Review, 1 June 2023 Like any major social and political movement, the events referred to as those of May 1968 have multiple different aspects and internal contradictions. They cannot be easily summed up in terms of a …
Eric Schliesser, Hume, Husserl and Foucault’s The Order of Things, Digressions & Impressions blog, 12 May 2023 As I have noted before (recall), Hume plays a triple role in Foucault’s (1966) Les mots et les choses (hereafter: The Order of Things).* First, alongside a number of other familiar philosophers Hume’s works are treated as illustrations …
Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere. The Normal and the Phenomenological, Paris Institute, February 10 2023 In his introduction to Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological, Michel Foucault makes an observation that we nowadays seem increasingly at risk of forgetting: far from being irreconcilably opposed to one another, the two main theoretical styles of continental philosophy—i.e., phenomenology and …
Ivan Segré, Destitution: Lacan, Foucault et la cabale, Lundi matin, no. 376, 31 mars 2023 Sur la base de certains énoncés de Lacan et de Foucault, qu’il s’efforce d’élucider, Ivan Segré propose une sorte de généalogie de la notion de « critique ». Partant des observations de Foucault relatives à la critique biblique au XVIe …
François Cusset (French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention, Paris Institute for Critical Thinking, June 8 2022 If French Theory is American, it is so in the sense of being an errant concept, caught up in a continuous process of blurring, relocation, and deconstruction. The story of my own book, French Theory, bears witness to this …
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