published in 1976, translated in 1977 – full PDF attached below – “Sexuality,” Foucault suggests, is by no means a fixed term that identifies an objective concept in the world. Rather, it evolved in the nineteenth century as a result of the peculiar marriage of scientific discourse and confession. Before the nineteenth century, there was […]
by Mary Harrington. When revelations broke on Sunday about Michel Foucault sexually abusing young boys in Tunisia, the massed opponents of ‘woke’ were delighted at the opportunity to smear one of the intellectual colossi of the worldview they so loathe. But those currently demanding that the woke cancel Foucault for kiddy-fiddling or be outed as […]
By contrast to us moderns, who invented psychoanalytic, medical, and legal frameworks to regulate our sexuality (Volume 1, La Volonté de savoir, The Will to Know); the early Christian thinkers deployed the framework of lust, flesh, and sin as a way to curb and regulate sexual relations. In the process, they instantiated entirely new ways […]
By Guillaume Le Blanc December 2, 2019 Sexual subject, speaking the truth of oneself, and confession are the three great theoretical operations that circulate in the text. They are three effects of a technique of the self that was constructed thanks to sexuality—through which we all became confessional creatures. We must therefore say that sexuality […]
By Ashley Crossman. Foucault’s main goal in the books is to disprove the idea that Western society had repressed sexuality since the 17th century and that sexuality had been something that society did not talk about. The books were written during the sexual revolution in the United States. Thus it was a popular belief that […]
by Michel Foucault. these first men, before sin, could command the generative organs in order to beget children, just as they command the other members which the soul moves without any difficulty and without the goad of pleasure so as to apply them to some task. … The involuntary form of a movement is what […]
Reviewed by Stuart Elden. Libido becomes, in Augustine’s phrase, sui juris, its own right, a law unto itself. Here, as elsewhere, there are a set of issues concerning the animality of human lust (i.e. p. 344). Temptation to sin, rather than sin in itself, is a crucial factor. This is part of the reason that […]
In the world of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four sexual regulation is an integral part of the government’s ability to control the population of Oceania. Orwell presents a critique of the sexual regulation imposed on the subjects of Oceania in his presentation of a dystopian society and makes an argument for sexual privacy.
by Michel Foucault Foucault_Michel_The_History_of_Sexuality_3_The_Care_of_the_Self
by Michel Foucault. Foucault_Michel_The_History_of_Sexuality_2_The_Use_of_Pleasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality
…the provisions claiming to “protect” children and youth, such as article 334–1 concerning “incitement of minors to lewdness”, which can allow to indict any person “promoting” or “facilitating” sexual relations between minors… must be repealed, or profoundly modified, in the sense of a recognition of the right of the child and the adolescent to maintain […]
Foucault_Michel_The_History_of_Sexuality_1_An_Introduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality Hendricks, Spring 2014: hendricks_foucault-handout