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Remembering to Forget Foucault

Foucault with actors during the filming of Moi, Pierre Riviere

"If we wish to know the writer in our day, it will be through the singularity of his absence and in his link to death, which has transformed him into a victim of his own writing." — Michel Foucault, What Is an Author? "In our societies, characters dominate our perceptions. Our attention tends to be arrested [...]

Heterotopian Lemonade

Lemonade

“[The Heterotopia of Compensation’s] role is to create a space that is other, another real space, as perfect, as meticulous, as well arranged as ours is messy, ill constructed, and jumbled…I wonder if certain colonies have not functioned somewhat in this manner.”- Michel Foucault, Des Espace Autres (1967), Heterotopias. David Lean’s mise en scène of [...]