QQC 5

Quote: "Knowledge is created  "through relations... between institutions, economic and social processes, behavioral patterns, systems of norms, techniques, types of classification, modes of characterizations; and these relations are not present in the object"

Question: Do you agree/disagree that knowledge is an act of observation? Could he be implying that we don't experience life for what it actually is?

QQC 5

quote: " He rejects the answer that it is the object itself: "It is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, or to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground.""


Question: With Foucault's recent work on human sexuality how would we better understand his beliefs?

QQC 5

“Mendel spoke the truth, but he was not “within the true” of the biological discourse of his time...”

Foucault thinks that in this case, the credibility of truth relied on its relation to a cultural moment, or a disciplinary timeline/history. Can a “truth” ever transcend time and its cultural moment? If so, what sort of truth would be accepted as credible without abiding by its current cultural/disciplinary boundaries?

QQC 5

 Self determination is a third principle that usually comprises a feminist world view.


Question: do we believe that these traits of feminisms and masculinity are scientifically true or beloved to be true by the perceptions created ever since the initiation of rhetoric?

QQC 5

Quote: "Discourse is not simply that of which manifests (or hides) desire- it is also the object of desire; and since as history teaches us, discourse is not simply that which translates struggles or systems of domination, but is the thing for which and by which there is struggle, discourse is the power which is to be seized."

Question: Who has the power to determine what can or can't be a part of discourse?

QQC 5

Quote: "It is always possible that one might speak the truth in the space of a wild exteriority, but one is "in the true" only by obeying the rules of a discursive "policing" which one has to reactivate in each of one's discourse." (RT)

Question: Is there a limit to how much truth there can be within a rhetorical space of discourse? Why?

QQC: #5

"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles or systems of domination, but is the thing for which and by which there is struggle."

To what extent do you believe discourse is the thing for which and by which struggle exists? Apart from discourse, can you find another derivation of struggle?