Raven SnowAug 26, 2024

that's right baby im actually reading foucault

"We are informed that if repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost: nothing less than a transgression of laws, a lifting of prohibitions, an irruption of speech, a reinstating of pleasure within reality, and a whole new economy in the mechanisms of power will be required."

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"For the least glimmer of truth is conditioned by politics. Hence, one cannot hope to obtain the desired results simply from a medical practice, nor from a theoretical discourse, however rigorously pursued. Thus, one denounces Freud's conformism, the normalizing functions of psychoanalysis, the obvious timidity underlying Reich's vehemence, and all the effects of integration ensured by the "science" of sex and the barely equivocal practices of sexology" - Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol. 1
Show threadRaven SnowAug 26, 2024
"If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere fact that one is speaking about it has the appearance of a deliberate transgression. A person who holds forth in such language places himself to a certain extent outside the reach of power; he upsets established law; he somehow anticipates the coming freedom"
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"Tomorrow sex will be good again."
Aug 26, 2024 at 11:52pmWeb
Show threadRaven SnowAug 31, 2024
"Let there be no misunderstanding: I do not claim that sex has not been prohibited or barred or masked or misapprehended since the classical age; nor do I even assert that it has suffered these things any less from that period on than before. I do not maintain that the prohibition of sex is a ruse; but it is a ruse to make prohibition into the basic and constitutive element from which one would be able to write the history of what has been said concerning sex starting from the modern epoch"
Show threadRaven SnowAug 31, 2024
"We must be clear on this point, however. It is quite possible that there was an expurgation-and a very rigorous one-of the authorized vocabulary. It may indeed be true that a whole rhetoric of allusion and metaphor was codified. Without question, new rules of propriety screened out some words: there was a policing of statements."
Show threadRaven SnowAug 31, 2024
"A control over enunciations as well: where and when it was not possible to talk about such things became much more strictly defined; in which circumstances, among which speakers, and within which social relationships. Areas were thus established, if not of utter silence, at least of tact and discretion: between parents and children, for instance, or teachers and pupils, or masters and domestic servants."
Show threadRaven SnowAug 31, 2024
"This almost certainly constituted a whole restrictive economy, one that was incorporated into that politics of language and speech-spontaneous on the one hand, concerted on the other-which accompanied the social redistributions of the classical period."
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This one's too big for a text post so I'll just screenie it cuz it's fucking goooood. Y'all gotta see it.
Show threadRaven SnowAug 31, 2024
"An imperative was established: Not only will you confess to acts contravening the law, but you will seek to transform your desire, your every desire, into discourse."