Word: foucaults
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...affinity, especially intellectual styles related to deconstructionism and postmodernism. The temptation to ask The Question-does Tom Wolfe know what he's talking about?-is always hovering in the back of your mind. Maybe he's not totally right. Maybe he doesn't really understand the complexities of Foucault, the intricacies involved in a social phenomenon like "hooking up," or the true state of the American novel. Wolfe is such a skillful writer that it all seems to be almost beside the point. Almost. Perhaps we'll have a better idea of just how all-knowing Wolfe is when...
...herself. Lanie Robertson's short play considers the fluid nature of sanity and sovereignty as it follows Mary and her attendant group of "Furies," who are either inmates of the asylum, creations of Mary's mind or both. Director Mimi Asnes '02, a Women's Studies concentrator, cites Foucault and de Certeau as having influenced her reading of the play. Asnes admits that Robertson's script has some weaker passages but adds that it is "fun and exciting because there is a lot of room for actors to explore movement and sound and relationship." Indeed, Asnes, who designed lighting...
...example, does activism seem so foreign to some students? Why does reading the newspaper not make us concretely angry? Why are discussion of social ideas over dinner more likely to end with invocation of Foucault than a concrete commitment to improving health care? Safe in the university, we are free to leap selectively between concepts, to stay in an intellectual airspace. The long, repetitive, quotidian ground in between--fighting the bill for three years through Congress, reforming welfare one family at a time--is not territory we need venture into...
...concentrators still read the classics if they want, wrapping themselves in Milton instead of Foucault? According to interviews with students in the department and with professors with a host of different political views, the answer...
...devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later, he excoriated them for romanticizing "cynically anti-Semitic, mean-spirited, and simply incompetent" demagogues such as Louis Farrakhan while the underclass plunged into misery...