Commentary on politics, philosophy, culture, and religion, at a minimum.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
14 Apr 2023 32 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Throughout this week, I’ve been reading de Jouvenel’s On Power: The Natural Growth of Its History. On Monday and Wednesday, I covered the first four parts or books of de Jouvenel’s work and today I will be reviewing the last two. The last two section...
12 Apr 2023 19 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
"For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm." - Conan On Monday, the 10th of April, I covered the metaphysics and history of de Jouvenel’s Power. Today, what I will endeavor to cover is Power’s essence or character a...
10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
As soon as I finished the works by Burnham I could get my hands on, I immediately turned to another mid-20th-century political scientist: Bertrand de Jouvenel. His work On Power: The Natural History of its Growth is monumental. Its lofty aims are mad...
