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Reaching Through the Framework: Biopolitics, the Madman, and Ethical Knowledge Systems

3 May 2023 14 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat

  Playing the Game of Life, Man can Transform Himself for the Better and Worse. How do we arrive at what’s true and false, and how do reality and fiction relate to Power? Foucault’s analysis of power relations is predicated on this question. For Fou...

Truth, Power, and the Panopticon

1 May 2023 16 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Simple games have more to say than meets the eye. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve investigated and reviewed Foucault’s translated and essential works. I will complete that task by reviewing Foucault’s last essential work, which is specifically o...

From Underground to The World: PUNK!

1 May 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Rio Septian

Punk may be one of the most controversial music genres in history. Punk music has had a significant influence on popular culture and fashion since the mid-1970s. Although some still question punk's status as a genre of music that is "truly" worthy o...

The History of the Phenomenal Grunge Movement

30 Apr 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Rio Septian

  In the early 1990s, a new sound and subculture emerged from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. This genre of music, known as grunge, quickly gained popularity and became a cultural phenomenon, influencing not only music but also fa...

The Birth of the New Man Through the Death of Representational Truth

28 Apr 2023 28 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat

Between Being and Multiplicity, there is the Womb of Creation  Over the past week, starting on Monday, the 24th of April, and resuming on Wednesday, the 26th, I have been covering the essentials of Foucault’s work on aesthetics. What I've come to see...

The Shadow's Mask: Truth, Language, and Aesthetics

26 Apr 2023 12 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

In the space between this moment and the next… there is the truth. On Monday, the 24th of April, I began my discussion of Michel Foucault’s work on aesthetics vis-à-vis his ethical work. Today, I will be continuing that analysis. What I find most int...

Madness, Death, and Life: An Ethical Aesthetic

24 Apr 2023 12 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat

To live as if we are a work of art is to live madly, yet to live as if we are not mad is madness itself. On Friday, the 21st of April, I concluded my discussion of Michel Foucault’s work on ethics by claiming we must make our life a work of art. Sere...

Power, Self-Development, and the State

21 Apr 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Floating through the void, we reach out for a hand that's not there... and if it is, we will wish we didn't reach out at all. In an anonymous interview conducted in the Spring of 1980, Michel Foucault claimed Philosophy wasn’t so much the study of wh...

Foucault's Ethical Model and Biopolitics

19 Apr 2023 10 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Ask not what your state can do for you but what you can do for the state. In my post on Monday, the 17th of April, I explored the relationship between knowledge and Power as identified by Foucault; specifically, learned knowledge or categorical knowl...

Dancing With Foucault: Knowledge and Power

17 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

When some of us hear the name Foucault, we let out a sigh, others ask “Who,” and some even say, “What did you say to me?”. For a time in my life, I was of the first variety. I had heard of Foucault vicariously and, through osmosis, I’d acquired some...