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Comment on Facebook is the new panopticon by Susan Abraham

Susan Abraham — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:07:18 +0000

That’s exactly true as Mitch says. You can’t fully ‘delete’ a Facebook account. Remember the email account and password by which you first signed on and a year down the line, you are still able to reactivate the said account.

Facebook permanently holds and maintains all the information you gave it, in the first instance.

Comment on Our Foucault Book by lettrist

lettrist — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:37:56 +0000

Your book would be instructive for my friends and I who write about geography and urban space in a very local journal dedicated to the realization and further articulation of what the Situationists called “unitary urbanism” – except we have an anti-civ approach to all of it.

Comment on CFP: “Deleuze: Ethics and Politics” by lettrist

lettrist — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:31:09 +0000

Sounds fascinating. I am not a student but am considering this conference – is that still possible? Thanks for posting.

Comment on Update on the Heidegger situation by chris

chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:56 +0000

It seems that Romano has a pretty long history of this type of stupidity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Romano

Comment on Facebook is the new panopticon by Eric

Eric — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:43:22 +0000

Also, FB alows users to introduce misinformation or represent themselves using “personas.” The subject represented using status updates, link-sharing or photo uploading need not actually be the author’s.

Comment on Chronicle of Higher Ed: Heil Heidegger! by Update on the Heidegger situation « Foucault blog

Update on the Heidegger situation « Foucault blog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:45:14 +0000

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Comment on Neil Smith on Foucault and revolution by Chathan Vemuri

Chathan Vemuri — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:10:17 +0000

Doesn’t Foucault say that there is always this kind of inherent danger in power relations?

Comment on Neil Smith on Foucault and revolution by mwerntz

mwerntz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:35:09 +0000

maybe you can shed some light on this: how can resistance ultimately effect anything for Foucault, if resistance/repression are instances of the same power, which must both exist if there is to be power at all?

Comment on Halloween Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary by victoria

victoria — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:28:23 +0000

i went there this year wit all amy firends we are all 11 and 12 and it was scary as shit!

Comment on Chronicle of Higher Ed: Heil Heidegger! by Gnouros

Gnouros — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:34:49 +0000

Foucault could be very useful regarding the “Heidegger’s issue”. Indeed, we could say Heidegger as an author doesn’t exist ; his texts are only toolboxes that we could use for other purposes if we judge it useful − or not. That means, we should separate the men from his works. Not easy? It’s what philosophers do every time e.g. with Plato! No doubt that Plato was a crazy totalitarian (at least as crazy as Heidegger if we follow for instance Popper’s analyzes) but it doesn’t imped us to read his texts and to reuse his concepts. Why not consider Heidegger as we consider Plato?