tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post1664450100635365536..comments2024-03-17T00:23:24.896-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Foucault’s Truth RelativismLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-67270058485786182222020-10-30T11:55:15.731-07:002020-10-30T11:55:15.731-07:00Five+ years later, I think perhaps you should revi...Five+ years later, I think perhaps you should revisit this .. I do not believe Foucault is advocating for relativism - merely pointing to the fact that it exists in any system of power .. the manipulation of "truth" shall we say .. all sides are doing this very thing regularly now to the point where, like Pontius Pilate, all we can say is "What is truth?" .. the dilution of fact presented as truth makes it much more difficult for us to see outside of our own spheres of influenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-82278295019279229212015-03-26T16:45:02.076-07:002015-03-26T16:45:02.076-07:00Just for clarification: I don't mean to sugges...Just for clarification: I don't mean to suggest that Mirowski agrees with Foucault's analysis in its entirety. However, it is a work of his that I thought you may enjoy.Matt Pappalardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-4509744464457832462015-03-26T09:20:46.410-07:002015-03-26T09:20:46.410-07:00I haven't read it fully yet, but will in due c...I haven't read it fully yet, but will in due course.Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-81569233265510795162015-03-26T08:28:04.161-07:002015-03-26T08:28:04.161-07:00But "produced only by virtue of" clearly...But "produced only by virtue of" clearly means "created only due to..."; LK has a point that not all truth is created by and/or according to the dictates of institutions. If someone smacks me in the face and I feel pain, is the truth that in that moment "I feel the sensation of pain" the result of institutional constraints? No way--what institution arbitrates between my sensation of pain and whether it is true or false that I feel that sensation? And note that Foucalt said "ONLY by virtue of"--he is ruling out the possibility that truth can be produced by virtue of anything else BUT institutions. R Minskynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-38133893328234115392015-03-25T16:29:57.113-07:002015-03-25T16:29:57.113-07:00What's your opinion of Foucault's The Birt...What's your opinion of Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France? I know that it has been useful for scholars of neoliberalism like Mirowski.Matt Pappalardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-38157300630816617482015-03-25T12:47:47.962-07:002015-03-25T12:47:47.962-07:00What's puzzling? "In virtue of" mean...What's puzzling? "In virtue of" means "subject to".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-8479988226466279252015-03-25T09:08:09.456-07:002015-03-25T09:08:09.456-07:00And yet Foucault tells us explicitly: "Truth ...And yet Foucault tells us explicitly: "Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint."<br /><br />How do you explain this?Lord Keyneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-18492963569644971062015-03-25T08:04:28.022-07:002015-03-25T08:04:28.022-07:00Postmodernist writing is like text from a holy boo...Postmodernist writing is like text from a holy book; it contains valuable lessons when taken metaphorically, but lunatics tend to take it literally, like a physics textbook. It's about thought on social dynamics and human perception, which are inherently volatile.<br /><br />Foucault's writings were about how people in positions of power use access to information to control and oppress those under them, not about how consensus magically defines reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com