I cannot express how refreshing it is to hear European philosophy explained via Southern accent.
@MexTexican
4 жыл бұрын
Texas! Even better.
@panembahansenopati1218
3 жыл бұрын
wow..is that southern accent? just knew it ..thanks
@imag3reader
3 жыл бұрын
@Arbane's Sword im a european and i cannot but thnk of mr garrison
@miguelserrano8154
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine Faulkner teaching English Lit..
@miguelserrano8154
2 жыл бұрын
@Arbane's Sword interesting. How?
@kiwiopklompen
Жыл бұрын
This is a brilliant introduction to Foucault. Anyone who needs to understand governmentality and biopower should start here.
@forwardpdx
9 жыл бұрын
i cant stop watching this guys videos, i think its the voice.
@socialist-strong
7 жыл бұрын
The hwhy is pretty damn cool
@cloongeorgy7553
7 жыл бұрын
It's rare to hear a southern accent talk positively/neutrally about continental philosophy. xD
@ac1dP1nk
7 жыл бұрын
Take those linens off the veranda Mary
@PappyMandarine
5 жыл бұрын
@@cloongeorgy7553 haha true that!!
@Finn959
5 жыл бұрын
@@cloongeorgy7553 yeah they're usually all on the analytical side
@NYGGJELEBEITE
11 жыл бұрын
As a norwegian I have to say that it is kind of mind-blowing to listen to these lectures in that beatiful west-texan dialect. This level of discourse and thought is not what I used to associate with people from texas!
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
so true. I wonder where you are now five years down the road.
@jeffbrown-hill7739
3 жыл бұрын
Texas is full of surprises.
@arktseytlin
4 ай бұрын
I realize I am replying to 11 year old comment... but the condescending attitude of Europeans towards Americans is extremely idiotic, and smacks very much of an inferiority complex.
@tricornclub9594
3 жыл бұрын
Great educator. The best and most accessible intro to Foucault's work that I've come across.
@andytaylor6402
3 жыл бұрын
If anyone deserved heaven was Rick. What a great chap he was !! So grateful for all these lectures ☺️🤩
@ATINUKE67
8 жыл бұрын
Wow way to go professor. Your lecture is absolutely illuminating on Foucault . Thank you.
@robertcondepsychologist
7 жыл бұрын
Olatunde Atanda he is dead but I'm sure he would appreciate your sentiments
@jamesblackman2202
11 жыл бұрын
what's great about this guy is that you can hear in his voice how passionate he is. great to listen to.
@JacubanGecko
7 жыл бұрын
Watching Rick Roderick makes me really like those Southern US accents. On another note, his lectures are really great for some quick summaries to deepen understanding into a thinker's perspective, and this lecture series is really great.
@cheri238
Жыл бұрын
Professor Rick Roderick, thank you so much I always come to your lectures. RIP, sir.❤ You speak my language and I am forevermore grateful 🙏
@RinatNugayev
9 жыл бұрын
Quite right! Michelle Foucault is extremely popular in Russia; all his works are translated into Russian and published many times.The reason is his view of society as a great Concentration Camp with panopticon Kremlin with Stalin&Beria at its centre
@alexeyprofi3951
3 жыл бұрын
normalising power exists in all societies
@ttacking_you
Жыл бұрын
I thought the Russki's hated gays?
@ttacking_you
Жыл бұрын
Oh I bet they try to keep that knowledge secret ! the historical closet!
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
Cannot say enough good things about RR's lectures. I not only learn but am reassured that I'm not completely alone in America. Although it sure feels like it most of the time, especially now that he's gone. At least these lectures live on.
@pfflam
4 жыл бұрын
'information' and 'knowledge' are not interchangeable. The French word Savoir is appropriate to think about in relation to 'knowledge' the way Foucault uses it in that it mans not just raw data but a know-how, and implies both data and how to structure, hold and employ it. In English, to be 'savvy' is to bot know what and how. I think this is actually an important thing for understanding how Foucault uses 'discourse' and Power/Knowledge. -my 2c
@pfflam
4 жыл бұрын
Another reason for this is that what Foucault means when he uses the word discourse is the saying, what is said, and where and how it is said, by which I mean to reference that the saying is merely the tip of the contextual and material history of the saying, which means all of the forms of knowledge that shaped its utterance: the disciplinary practices in their contexts, the Universities, politics, bureaucracies, architectures, material sciences, etc etc etc. It keeps his form of Post Modernism from floating away on a purely abstract symbolic-only mode of analysis.
@pfflam
4 жыл бұрын
but anyway, these are great lectures and I appreciate your focus
@TheEisel
Жыл бұрын
Would that just be called raw data? Information is what we can filter down from data, ie a form of knowledge. But I agree I think it could be a bit too arbitrary to hold knowledge and information as equal.
@dominicbarnes3273
7 жыл бұрын
One of the most interesting expositions on Foucault I've come across. SO impressed
@eapooda
2 жыл бұрын
love hearing an intelligent speaker with a southern accent
@bicycleetc9436
7 жыл бұрын
In the places of higher learning in the Northeast, this accent is associated with racists, religious fanatics, and the generally backwards.... This presentations, and the erudition of the presenter shatters all such associations. Indeed as MF stated knowledge is power.
@victorburnett6329
3 жыл бұрын
It is those associations which cause exclusion and ostracism of individuals like the lecturer so their ideas cannot be disseminated. It is political power exercised by "knowledge" AKA prejudice.
@bryanstark1930
3 жыл бұрын
You, are a prejudiced, discriminatory bigot.. and a fanatic one in that.
@Heyu7her3
Жыл бұрын
Associating someone's character to their accent is *peak* backwards.
@booboodadfool8015
4 жыл бұрын
Jordan Peterson should watch this
@patoxa
4 жыл бұрын
😂
@Vladimir-Struja
4 жыл бұрын
my toughts exactly
@bhpurerange1
4 жыл бұрын
peterson is a fraudster and a charlatan. he cant even follow his own advice and stay out oh rehab.
@Vladimir-Struja
4 жыл бұрын
@@bhpurerange1 that is correct, however he is selling himself as a reasonable person that wants to have an honest argument. and the fans believe it. that is why attacking him with names is counter-productive, although he deserves these names.... we need to thread lightly
@bhpurerange1
4 жыл бұрын
@@Vladimir-Struja "however he is selling himself as a reasonable person that wants to have an honest argument" I disagree. ask him about the second book written by Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn and watch as he recoils away from thruth
@arsenelupin123
4 жыл бұрын
When he talked about panopticism, all I could think about was Facebook and Google. And also, you know, the actual carceral state.
@reffee
2 жыл бұрын
I am very late responding to this comment but: Byung Chul-Han's Psychopolitics might be of interest to you if you have not already read it.
@spencedelic
2 жыл бұрын
Another example of panopticism cast out onto human populations can be found in Peter Thiel/Alex Karp’s Palantir Technologies
@DaveE99
Ай бұрын
@@reffeenot read it but think I kinda discussed Ceres it by studying and tearing my self apart and then wondering about other people and comparing neuroscience of the personality traits and its nuts a lot of what your arguing against is brain structure.
@creepycrawlything
4 жыл бұрын
Roderick's presentation of his thesis is highly accessible and informative; certainly for me. I'm someone who gets influenced by exposure to this or that thinker (here Foucault as re-presented by Rabinow), while not having opportunity or capability allowing me to master their corpus as a whole. So when I end applying the personal thinking I have been influenced to in daily life, there can be a chasm between myself and people not so influenced. Roderick's clear grasp of his own thesis on Foucault, then helps me to stabilise as I confront and attempt to cross that chasm.
@danieljohnson1924
Жыл бұрын
I love this guy's voice
@AlbornozVEVO
Жыл бұрын
"When a teacher asks a young child 'how much is two plus two?' they are not requesting information. They are issuing an order." -Gille Deleuze.
@fruko1980
12 жыл бұрын
@DamiaanVDW I've been listening to them for years. His lectures can be listened to over and over. I've learnt so much from him. Sad that he died so young.
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
Also sad that Duke University fired him and so we lost him for his last 10 years on this planet. This planet that has shown RR to be pretty spot on as to where we have been headed.
@chetdeter5137
Жыл бұрын
The idea that facts don't exist is now fully entrenched in segments of American society, though the adherents to that idea might have amused Foucault.
@bryanutility9609
Жыл бұрын
If anyone who thinks this way about facts was actually challenged, by their own arguments they could not make any judgments. So they are not serious. Their rhetoric is designed to confuse YOU. They want power that’s it and you don’t owe them any explanation. Treat them as parasites.
@saimbhat6243
3 ай бұрын
Foucault didn't mean facts don't exist per se. He meant facts are not independent of interpretation, thus not absolutely objective. And this idea goes back to the beginning of human thought, like the good old pre-socratic "man is the measure of all things". Even the opponents of Foucault, the ardent ones, acknowledge this truth, so they get rattled that their monopoly over facts and their interpretation might dilute or vanish away. I have never seen a proper critique of post-modern though, except a detailed ad hominem attacks or a suspicion of their intentions or perceived negative consequences of their ideas, but NEVER a critique of their ideas. Which has often amused me. Facts such as earth is flat, is an objectively wrong interpretation. Because while the proponent of this thought maintains common natural language, you can put him on a helicopter and ask him to find the edge of earth. Facts such as "all humans are created equal" is meta-physical, because "equal" in it is a abstract concept, thus open to interpretations.
@annereidy7981
3 ай бұрын
Yes, absolutely wouldn't have amused him though. His worst fears are being realised? He knew he would be misrepresented and abused and said in an interview, that he couldn't control how he would be represented after his death.
@MatthewHall-c9k
Ай бұрын
Who still argues for 'facts' ...besides me?
@DaveE99
Ай бұрын
@@saimbhat6243let’s be honest, the reason you know the earth isn’t flat is because no neoliberal capitalist built a theme park on the edge and is charging admission. Like even if we dismiss science, we know people would destroy beautiful natural landscapes to earn a buck like the edge of the 🌎
@leedonnelly6217
2 жыл бұрын
Knowledge and power- proof indeed, in these covid years, that Foucault is as relevant as ever; maybe more so. Brilliantly delivered with humour and clarity by the enigmatic and eccentric West Texan, Rick Roderick. I love all his lectures and listen over and over.
@dandiacal
5 жыл бұрын
The great and greatly missed Rick Roderick R.I.P. wish he were here today to hear his take on the present situation.
@txikitofandango
9 ай бұрын
Everything he says at the end about the defacializing effect of TV, you have to wonder how he felt about the Internet, which was in its BEST form when he died in 2002
@williamkoscielniak820
8 жыл бұрын
"We don't call them stupid and morons, but the differently abled, but this is a new mechanism of power" - Reminded me of George Carlin
@reneperez2126
7 жыл бұрын
George carlin knew all too well that humanism is always false humanism why is it People s reactions to those hardcore jokes was overwhelming because People knew he was damn right those jokes were mirrors in which People got to see themselves as genuine as it gets carlin was skilled in bringing People into a liberation stage very much like a religious ritual this is not fascism or some apology tô it instead it is about making ourselves aware that there is something off , intrinsically unfair with the very stablisment of our modern society as we know it
@geezzerboy
7 жыл бұрын
George Carlin was the greatest American Philosopher of the 20th Century.
@CitizenSnips314
6 жыл бұрын
Not sure that humanism is always false, though that may often be the case. I'm thinking that the humanism of Jesus Christ wasn't false, though I'm open to other arguments. I'm not Christian myself, but I take some inspiration from the life and teachinga of Christ. Interesting questoins would be: What characterised Jesus' humanism? Can it be called humanism? How does it differ from secular humanism? What are the implications of this difference in society? What are the positives of each? WHat are the drawbacks?
@Driecnk
3 жыл бұрын
@@CitizenSnips314 ?
@davidjooste5788
7 ай бұрын
That's why Peterson says you become undocile and authentic by taking charge of your life. Making your damn bed is your first act of resistance. Do it.
@user-hu3iy9gz5j
Жыл бұрын
The idea that "not everyone has been allowed to perform philosophy" is absurd. It assumes that there is some higher entity needed to grant your philosophy its status. We might naturally only remember the ideas of the most influential figures, but what else is to be expected? This doesn't mean that the lower classes didn't think in philosophical terms, just that they didn't have the means to influence contemporary society and history as follows
@PoliticalJohn
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this series. A very concise and easily understood overview of so much philosophical thought.
@RinatNugayev
9 жыл бұрын
Excellent! It's the best lecture on great Russian philosopher Michelle Foucault I ever heard!
@micahbrgg
9 жыл бұрын
Rinat Nugayev why do u think he is Russian?
@xooshrobleh4117
9 жыл бұрын
Rinat Nugayev Foucault is french
@JontoDickens
9 жыл бұрын
+Micah Bragg it's a reference to his communist tendencies, duh!
@glenmccarthy8482
6 жыл бұрын
Rick was a first rate educator.
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
That's why Duke University had to fire him.
@nikolademitri731
11 ай бұрын
@@johnmiller7453 didn’t fall in line? I wish I knew more, but that’s the vibe I get from the very little I’ve read/heard on Rick as Duke prof..
@victorburnett6329
3 жыл бұрын
Kind of a surreal lecture.
@kseniahoroshenkova2614
4 жыл бұрын
For sure did not expect Roderick to anticipate the racial injustice being fought now in the USA in this video, yet it all makes sense
@jordan3636
2 жыл бұрын
The "racial injustice being fought" that was inspired by a Marxist organization that ran off with a bunch of money for "marginalized communities"(who claimed to be from those communities of "powerless people") and a Russian psyops. Basically under cutting rational thought and democracy.
@Heyu7her3
Жыл бұрын
US has never not had racial injustice
@ipdavid1043
6 жыл бұрын
I accidentally stepped into KZitem PEL group when I was searching for Arendt's Human Conditions' video...then you guys have TONS of good stuff..and videos..I am going to be quite busy for awhile..and thanks to PEL...:)
@capitandelnorte
5 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely wonder, a simple breakdown of a complex thinker, could have used a few Nietszche references and a bit more on Foucaults genealogies and connection to the general themes of post-structuralism but all in all
@gauri3268
2 жыл бұрын
The example of the book one flew over the cokoo's nest is a great one, examples from novels and books help understand the concept better thanks for that.
@TheModernHermeticist
7 жыл бұрын
love this man - RIP
@SilenziEmpire
11 жыл бұрын
This guy is FANTASTIC.
@dougcl_
3 жыл бұрын
18:30 "The exclusions were a condition for the possibility of that being a form of knowledge and discourse."
@harlowfarblast
10 жыл бұрын
Excellent conclusion. Thanks for posting this. He was yet another voice of validation for me. The world we live in is very much the prison of Foucault's description, if not become worse since his death. Look at the increasingly narrow passages we are expected to walk through, the exclusions and inclusions. Even meeting social needs is restricted to online social networks wherein one must also be force fed the values of the popular culture through the medium of the high school sporting event mentality. Yay. On. Everything. (I'm trying to be positive here. You know, the "law of attraction." Hmm, then why am I repulsed by my own attempt?)
@mythnow
10 жыл бұрын
Sis boom BAh! you are great!
@chrismorrison2805
5 жыл бұрын
well said.
@mindfulselfindulgence
4 жыл бұрын
which is why we need anarcho primitivism don’t @ me
@paulcaddell1689
10 жыл бұрын
And, I loved your lectures - just listening to my third!
@mikeyid99
12 жыл бұрын
fantastic stuff! highly accessible for a thinker whom is incredibly complex and difficult to grasp. Only thing I would criticise would be the focus on Discipline and Punish.
@dominicbarnes3273
7 жыл бұрын
This is a FASCINATING video. What an amazing guy!!!!!!
@nicolasdelaforge7420
8 жыл бұрын
Christ was 'the mad' and thus excluded from society. The non-docile body par excellence. Thus, he exists as merely a 'church' and not as a life principle.
@DarkAngelEU
6 жыл бұрын
But by "eating his body" and "drinking his blood" we do accept him, even include him into our natural world. It's a ritual that keeps the dead alive, even Freud agreed upon that.
@homerfj1100
10 жыл бұрын
A wonderful lecture. My first, I knew nothing of Foucault. Thank you so much.
@socialist-strong
7 жыл бұрын
His joke about a C was good, more people should have laughed.
@kategoss5454
5 жыл бұрын
I don't think the microphone picked up the audience properly, there's a few times in these jokes where he responds to the audience but they're inaudible. I think this is just the sound feed from his lapel mic, so we're lucky enough not to hear audience noises throughout! Does make it seem like his excellent jokes aren't landing, though.
@philiphammar
5 жыл бұрын
@@kategoss5454 Seems like quite a tough crowd though. His jokes are hilarious at times! But you might be right @Kate Goss
@rgaleny
11 жыл бұрын
The torture and repentance of Winston Smith at the end of 1984 by Orwell is an Extreme example of The power/ Knowledge thing.
@tricornclub9594
3 жыл бұрын
I too was reminded of Winston Smith as I listened to this. His chilling torture by O'Brien especially.
@user-wo5bp2oi5c
5 жыл бұрын
Watching him makes me realize how negatively biased marketers are against people with a southern accent. Ironically, they’re probably more liberal I’m guessing.
@dlau5775
4 жыл бұрын
That's really true, in many times I've been to the States, and people I've known from USA, I'm always surprised how people are prejudiced against those in the South. I understand the history, but really it's all the same country! Opinions in South may not be as different to their own as some Northerners like to believe...!
@pjeffries301
4 жыл бұрын
@@dlau5775 All true, but can west Texas be considered the south? Maybe, but not traditionally.
@wailinburnin
11 жыл бұрын
Fascinating talk as it progresses to the actual, physical, "built environment" as itself a prison. In another posting, Chomsky debates Foucault and reminds that an imagined future utopia at least represents some form of ever-changing, rather ethereal goal. Both Disney and Hitler (polar opposites) became somewhat obsessed with urban planning before they died. The infrastructure of the pedestrian proletariat (public spaces/public transport/urban groves and gardens) is that utopia. Mad?
@robertgreenwood2258
6 жыл бұрын
some parks in some parts of town ain't so utopic. park down the street from me is pretty hardcore. noone goes there unless they are begging to get physically harmed. i don;t think it's the only park like that. lots of parks like that in the not so nice parts of towns across the world. so i guess those utopic public spaces you speak of exist along socio-economic lines. it's a big world. i guess some of it not worth everyones time checking out.
@sledgehammer5033
5 жыл бұрын
Disney’s imagined city in Florida is virtually indistinguishable (ideologically speaking) to Bentham’s Panopticon if you subscribe to the idea that capital inherently controls the proletariat. An interesting point, I’d never thought of it that way before you commented.
@hernan_972
2 жыл бұрын
Great lecture. I didn't understand how this lecture is related to "The Disappearance of the Human" though. Does it mean that these power structures and relationships (in prisons, in schools, in surveillance society as a whole) replace the human free will and the idea of the individual self? Or is it connected to the notion of a subverted "humanism"?
@singleoneonly
Жыл бұрын
Foucault’s project is maybe not the “disappearance” of the subject in the form of a ready made essence, but detailing the fact that large swaths of the “subject” is socially/historically contingent and is created through different discourses, regimes of signs, institutionalization, etc. His later ideas on “biopower” and “biopolitics” were especially interesting in this regard due to the fact that he moved the focus of power relations from simple discipline and restriction to power that controlled life in all its facets (birth, biological data, creation of new subjectivities, etc). Very interesting thinker.
@OBIrish
11 жыл бұрын
great Lecture, power, via foucault ,as an element in dictating elements of 'Truth'
@anilsanil
10 жыл бұрын
Brilliant..!!thank you so much for the upload
@mandys1505
4 жыл бұрын
At 29:42. it is literally written on his body , the power of the king and the church
@davidfost5777
3 жыл бұрын
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
@elenawinellcomposer
3 жыл бұрын
The are fascinating lectures.
@NoahsUniverse
5 жыл бұрын
Nietzsche said "there are no facts, only interpretations" in his response to something.
@counterr6750
5 жыл бұрын
The Flaming Philosopher And that makes you interpret it somehow differently, despite the fact, lmao. I think he meant that despite the exact context. He thought the reality was basically a lie suited for survival, which makes the interpretation the only thing that matters about the fact, as it is your relation to the fact you experience, not the fact itself. Therefore there is no reason to think that there is a “fact in itself”
@javiercano11
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the upload!!!! Enlightenment on every video
@RinatNugayev
9 жыл бұрын
Cause Michelle Foucault was a pupil of Louis Althusser and due to his influence joined the French communists after the war. However he quickly left the party after 1957 or so since he was dissapointed learning about Stalin's concentration camps and their victims
@_derpderp
2 жыл бұрын
I made up a mental construction of the relationship between data>information>knowledge>wisdom as a preteen mowing lawns. The data is there (in all of life) to be observed, information is data understood in short time spans, knowledge is information interpreted in varying contexts & remembered over longer time, wisdom being knowledge applied properly relative to real life concerns. Can I have tenure now? Lolz
@AlexanderKoryagin
2 жыл бұрын
Inspired and inspiring!
@NoahsUniverse
3 жыл бұрын
Foucault was one of the first people, in my opinion, to seriously try to expose the cruelty of homophoboa with philosophical logic and analysis. And what is so beautiful about Foucault is how indirectly direct he is about this. Everywhere you can see it in his work.
@Pandoradow
6 жыл бұрын
amzing delivery
@JamesDubreze
12 жыл бұрын
I love Rick Roderick lectures, but I disagree with the Noam Chomsky's comment. I Think Noam Chomsky deserve more credit than that. And I can collect a hand full of people who would agree with me. Noam Chomsky is a critical philosopher who is against injustice not just in America but all over the world. He sees injustice just like Dr. King saw it, "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
My issue with Chomsky and maybe with RR even though I love him so dearly is their belief that things can get better and eventually work out for humanity. I'll go instead with Schopenhauer who knew better. I still have great respect for all three of them.
@fsabouni
8 жыл бұрын
Is this guy Zizek's lost twin?
@ac1dP1nk
7 жыл бұрын
Javin Gibson b
@albanbokshi4818
6 жыл бұрын
No, Zizek is Zarathustra's lost buffoon.
@vincentmiedema3253
6 жыл бұрын
fsabouni paaapa
@vincentmiedema3253
6 жыл бұрын
Javin Gibson oo
@vincentmiedema3253
6 жыл бұрын
Alban Bokshi Pknnj
@TeddehSpaghetti
9 жыл бұрын
40:21 I half expected him to burst out with "TYRANNY!" in an Alex Jones voice. Hahah.
@jacksonrauch9429
6 жыл бұрын
Anyone else have the privilege of knowing the one and only Rick Roderick?
@johnmiller7453
6 жыл бұрын
I would trade several years off my life to have known him as a friend.
@kimvrungos4271
5 жыл бұрын
This is hard to watch. Miss him very much. Close friend. R IP Rick Roderick.
@kimvrungos4271
5 жыл бұрын
Where did my reply go?
@geoffreynhill2833
3 жыл бұрын
But how do we "re-form" the cruel and the sadistic?
@geoffreynhill2833
3 жыл бұрын
Another take: Ancient Man encounters mysterious plagues which, in his innocence/ignorance, he interprets as punishment by the gods. Desperate, he looks around, trying to discover what his sin was in order to eradicate it and thereby appease these mysterious entities He draws up lists of commandments to correct his mistakes, hoping they will restore his innocence, even though he is innocent... Meanwhile, he has to take up the more immediate business of defending himself against powerful human neighbours. If he is not already powerful, he has to become so in order to achieve this... Robert Graves, survivor of World War 1 and author of "Goodbye To All That", thought that the invention of nuclear weapons made further wars unthinkable. Let's hope he was right. But millions still love war movies, crime noir, "The Silence of the Lambs" etc. Especially men, but not exclusively...
@deepwayne757
6 жыл бұрын
I'm curious about what he says about Foucault's "non-historical" or "genealogical" method. I'm not well read in this stuff myself, but does Marx really believe capitalism was a coincidence? That seems to run counter to all I've heard about Hegelian history.
@sledgehammer5033
5 жыл бұрын
Just read a bit on historical materialism, it’s basically just a way to view history through the lens of the concrete rather than intangible. It’s way of suggesting that history isn’t beholden to ideology as much as ideology is beholden to history.
@sledgehammer5033
5 жыл бұрын
I’ll add that from what I understand Marx doesn’t see capitalism as a coincidence as much as he sees every socioeconomic development throughout history as a sort of coincidence. As matter is the most basic building block of the universe so it is also the engine that drives the universe “forward” to some new ideology.
@scioarete7987
5 жыл бұрын
Hmm. Be careful here, we have two thinkers. So, Marx writes that capitalism is born into this world, drenched with blood. So, Marx recognizes some intent behind capitalism and violence. However, I think it is worth nothing that capitlaism is not developed as part of some grand narrative. Capitalism does not replace feudalism because of reason. Reason is not causality nor thread. I think that is the point in these lectures. As for Marx, I'm not sure what his argument explaining capitalism's development is. I suspect it details a discussion of class seizure of power and a beleif by the mass that capitlaism would allow for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Actually, this would be a good question for @RichardWolff
@Heyu7her3
Жыл бұрын
Moreso that the historical progression is based on human labor and class struggle, so not predetermined (active rather than passive)
@samyamoy
4 жыл бұрын
Myad! Good talk.
@Wherethegoodstuffgoes
3 жыл бұрын
These lectures are great. They introduce thinkers that all too often get lazily dismissed as relativistic drivel by whining, pre-modern specialists with personality disorders. Do they not teach about straw persons and red herrings anymore?
@lajphd
8 жыл бұрын
Are these in the public domain?
@fuuz642
8 жыл бұрын
why do you ask?
@lajphd
8 жыл бұрын
+fuuz I was just wondering if I have the right to spread them as well. Thank you for uploading them!
@fuuz642
8 жыл бұрын
Luke Johnson i dint upload anything,what are you talking about?
@lajphd
8 жыл бұрын
+fuuz oh mea culpa
@CorpoCanada
Жыл бұрын
Awesome vid
@jonasrnning107
7 жыл бұрын
I would love to take a jog with this guy
@differous01
9 жыл бұрын
15:00 "...Clearly there's a relation, it seems to me, between knowlege and power... whether there's a way to uncouple knowlege and power... ...rules of exclusion, not inclusion... instiutional communications function through rules that determine who may speak, about what they may speak, for how long they may speak, in what setting... and this is not an invideous thing..." That is useful to note: institutions have such rules for reasons which have stood the test of time, such as the rule about how long one may speak; this encourages brevity and clarity. I only wish that the Tweeting generation had the discipline, accuracy and concision of expression which our centres of learning encourage; instead of giving ourselves time to reflect and give our considered thoughts, we get on line and give the first knee-jerk response to what we read, 1/ regardless of context, 2/ regardless of our use of ambiguous terms, 3/ regardless of resultant unnecessary misunderstanding, 4/ regardless of empathy. I seem to be making an argument for NOT interacting with the hopelessly undisciplined. I think there is wisdom in this; I should value my time and my intellect more, make my knowlege = power. (I say that as someone who is an habitual lover of lost causes)
@odb1612
5 жыл бұрын
differous01 i might be wrong bit i understood this statement as descrptive. i didn‘t get the impression that „power“ is something negative. it‘s more an observation of how knowledge is produced. if you have 1000 different views on a topic, you have to exclude most if not all of them through „power mechanisms“ to gain any form of knowledge. i didn‘t understand foucaults view as a prescriptive argument for eradicating these power structures. but please correct me if i‘m false.
@artlessons1
2 жыл бұрын
Dr Marion Woodman ( Jungian analyst) wrote a excellent book on anorexia and obesity. It’s in-depth psychology !
@appidydafoo
3 ай бұрын
22:22 - Foucault's Whole New Disciplinary Matrix Around Madness: "I've joked about this process - I don't want to use the strong word “madness” here - but when we look at the expansion of this therapeutic zone on into the late 20th century, we now find out that very few of us don't belong in it. I mean, if you're not on a 12-step program today, you're out of fashion; I mean, who would have guessed, that the discourse of madness would eventually cover the whole social field and, until, perhaps the last growth industry we have - other than making movies about sex and violence - is psychiatry, and in running 12-step programs? This is a growth industry." Who would have guessed? Thomas Szasz, in his book The Myth of Mental Illness, published in 1961. It wasn't a guess, either.
@mikea6345
5 жыл бұрын
I appreciate Rick's interpretations and the content, too bad he is not here to reap the rewards of his work. I have to take issue with Rick's comments on information and knowledge being 'equivalent' terms I guess. Knowledge, and I think part of what Foucault was pointing at, means the power to decide WHAT is considered knowledge and what information is knowledge. We demonstrate our knowledge with such things as college degrees. I may know everything about the law, everything, and legal precedent, etc. but the only way (with a couple of exceptions) I can demonstrate that knowledge in a court is to have an approved degree and pass the Bar exam. The Bar exam essentially dictates what is legal "knowledge". The Bar Assoc has the power to determine what the scope of legal knowledge is because the bar exam is the only path to practice. In that case, the Bar Assoc has power over a huge slide of the knowledge. If university wants to hand out recognized law degrees, they, in most states, have to be approved by the Bar Assoc to give out degrees which means they comply with the Bar Assoc's power over what to teach and how. The school must prepare the students to meet the knowledge requirements for the bar exam or they will lose students. So the university, because they have the power to certify a level of knowledge - with a degree -- have power over some of that knowledge. That is where you find the power. If any school could give a law degree that would allow one to practice law, and there was no unified bar exam, the Bar Assoc would lose its power and influence. Influence over how law is practiced in America. Knowledge is certain defined information, but it is also the creation of information. If a university would never approve a doctoral dissertation based on qualitative, hermaneutic research, they are deciding what research and types of information make up the knowledge that is created and what is viable knowledge and what is non viable. Foucault implied or even stated that these example institutions are who determine WHAT Knowledge is and they control that knowledge. Some types of information yields similar connections, but ultimately knowledge is the application of information to specific problems/situations and these institutions, governments, etc control what information can be used in what situations and in what ways (knowledge) and in that they are vested with tremendous power that can have huge historical implications. Just my thoughts and maybe I miss the argument but thanks for having a forum to at least consider these things....
@josephsmyth832
4 жыл бұрын
Shared Expectations Have you heard of the 7 liberal arts and sciences known as the Trivium and Quadrivium?
@JonWeinand
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your thoughts, I was thinking along the same lines when I came looking in the comments. The distinction seems to be a critical one for Foucault.
@beenright5115
Жыл бұрын
Great comment!!
@screamomaster102
3 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to show this to Jordan Peterson
@evangelosgeronicolas2385
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder what is the power behind all those Foucauldian etc ideologies.
@googleacount3611
4 жыл бұрын
?
@mackmaster100
5 жыл бұрын
I am torn between hating his voice and loving the content he presents
@jaxonspook586
7 жыл бұрын
One or more of his videos has disabled comments
@Taronathan
12 жыл бұрын
I don't believe Roderick discredited Chomsky, although that's not what you said. You claim Chomsky deserves more credit. I think you would be hard put to justify the need to give a person more credit than a fair remark, especially when their work is not specifically relevant to the topic addressed. Chomsky was utilized as an example to help define Foucault. Going into detail on the credit Chomsky deserves would only serve to confuse the listener into believing him more relevant than he is.
@deathtomichaelknagge4397
5 жыл бұрын
Hes really great and funny..if I had profs like him I wouldn't of dropped out lol!
@Hippiekinkster
5 жыл бұрын
You would have learned that "of" is a preposition too lol.
@jeffbrown-hill7739
3 жыл бұрын
@@Hippiekinkster Then again, I never went to college and I knew that as well.
@wouldbegood
3 жыл бұрын
So much projection from a teacher.
@Swishead
5 жыл бұрын
Drink every time Rick says interpretation
@jeffbrown-hill7739
3 жыл бұрын
Hit the bong every time he says "account".
@alexeyprofi3951
3 жыл бұрын
I don't want to end up as alcoholic
@yp77738yp77739
Жыл бұрын
Interesting but never suggests a viable alternative for crime and punishment. We decided that to move away from kinship tribes into societies and states gave us better opportunities for survival. Therefore, there has to be a degree of consensual and enforced docility or it’s a return to the killing fields in very short order. We eat, we procreate and we fight for dominance, rather like our cousins in the fields and forests, nothing much else of note.
@thekaiser4333
4 жыл бұрын
Vot language is zhis?
@kyledrums
4 жыл бұрын
Well the malls are dead and the new "docile body" is your amazon shopper. Of course, things got worse!
@5driedgrams
9 ай бұрын
Finally someone who actually understand postmodernism.
@celestialteapot3310
5 жыл бұрын
Hermeneutics isn't relatavism.
@abcrane
3 жыл бұрын
people watch Hollywood violence because it's the "substitute stimulation" (coupled with the vicarious relief of their frustrations via the "exciting violence") for their neurotic boring lives and frigidity. Many creative types have no time for this Hollywood junk, for they achieve excitement in their own craft, art, music, and the sensual/sexually expressive nature that tends to characterize this group. This explains the French New Wave, movies for artists.
@jp.dlamini
5 жыл бұрын
The legend
@TheSienn
2 жыл бұрын
42 min mark: “the cia is now mostly obsolete”. My man misses from time to time 😞😞😞
@fetusimao7018
6 жыл бұрын
I loooooove the voice.
@cowgomoo444
Жыл бұрын
Funny to be listening to this lecture right as the netflix show on jeffrey dahmer is super popular.
@FR-yr2lo
4 жыл бұрын
"We are living in a Gulag". Make me cry...
@johansigg3869
Жыл бұрын
The worst part of these videos is all the bigoted anti- J Peterson comments from bad faith actors claiming that he is a bad faith actor Peterson addresses not Rick R's (likely correft) reading of Foucault and Derrida, but how Foucault and Derrida are commonly applied today - if he is wrong about F, D then so are his enemies The major wound in all these great philosophical lectures is the ever present political bias
@fede2
Жыл бұрын
"bigoted anti- J Peterson" What do you think bigot means...? Also, do you think JBP is politically neutral...?
@johansigg3869
Жыл бұрын
@@fede2 I like your name, it's strong. I think bigotry boils down to assumptions, baseless prejudice, and ultimately, not giving a perspective it's due attention before criticizing it as a straw man. Unfortunately, I saw many comments doing this. I can't point them out now, but they were here when I posted this comment. I don't think JP is politically neutral - none truly are - but he is not politically bigoted. He seems to have read and encountered the opposition enough to critique it fairly - though there are criticisms of him not understanding Postmodernism and Marxism and some of those are also fair, perhaps accurate. But they are not present under this video. The comments I saw here were bigoted, unsubstantiated, and hastily running to the predetermined conclusion that an inner child prefers in order to keep their simple worldview intact. I like Rick's lectures, but the political interjections are inappropriate - and I assert that anyone saying otherwise says so only because the opinions presented happen to be ones that they also agree with. It's selfish to take advantage of the podium as a professor and let your own political prejudices run free during a lecture as though their truth is already confirmed and your opinions are as valid as the exposition of the philosopher you are lecturing upon.
@fede2
Жыл бұрын
@@johansigg3869 that's not what bigot means. It's not synonymous with "prejudice". And I don't see why Roderick is being uniquely gratuitous with his politics. Seems to me that that charge could just as easily apply to JBP by how you describe it.
@johansigg3869
Жыл бұрын
@@fede2 The precise definition that I looked up just now: Bigot, noun: "One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ." Admittedly, I detect that with Rick R and less with Peterson, though I accept that my position may be incorrect. I think that the word "prejudice" is related to the definition above. "Strongly partial" implies a prejudice against what is NOT "one's own group, religion, etc." I think the use of the word "prejudice" is not especially hyperbolic. Not synonymous either, but quite close. I think prejudice and bigotry are strongly associated. That interpretation about JBP could be assigned. But if it can be, then it also can be to Rick Roderick here. JBP does insert his own political opinions into his lectures occasionally. I should be just as annoyed at that tendency, so I suppose I condemn it as much. It is a common human flaw. It particularly got to me in this lecture - which, you may recall, talks about Foucault perhaps 60% of the time? That's irksome. I wanted to hear about Foucault, not Rick R's personal opinions. That is the core of my mostly unimportant complaint.
@zmatt87
5 жыл бұрын
Give us back the human, Foucault!
@paulelago9453
3 жыл бұрын
Foucault although not an absolute relativist as Roderick says, his ideas are being used as such.
@johnsmith1474
5 жыл бұрын
Speaker says Foucault says, knowledge is a regime of power. But the opposite is true too: ignorance is power. You cannot kill the innocent if you have knowledge of their innocence, but you can if you are ignorance of that fact. So once again, Foucault can be construed as what we say in New England is "bullshit," "malarkey," "hocus pocus," or "claptrap."
@scioarete7987
5 жыл бұрын
Dude, you've missed the whole point and not engaged with Foucault's argument.
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