Michel Foucault – critical consciousness/tragic experience – History of Madness
“For madness unleashes its fury in the space of pure vision. Fantasies and threats, the fleeting fragments of dreams and the secret destiny of the world, where madness has a primitive, prophetic force,...
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Consequently a madman is not recognized as such because an illness has pushed him to the margins of normality, but because our culture situates him at the meeting point between social decree of...
View ArticleMADNESS – Michel Foucault
“One day, perhaps, we will no longer know what madness was. Its form will have closed up on itself, and the traces it will have left will no longer be intelligible. To the ignorant glance, will those...
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Cage – 2013 – 30′x45′ – Oil on Canvas This is a painting based off of a black and white photo of Michel Foucault in his study. I don’t think that this information has to be known for the image to...
View ArticleMichel Foucault – The Archaeology of Knowledge – part III
Michel Foucault The Archaeology of Knowledge PART III The Statement and the Archive This post is a continuation of an exercise with The Archaeology of Knowledge, by Michel Foucault. A previous post...
View ArticleAncient Babylonian Art, Cy Twombly, Michel Foucault
There is no difference between marks and words in the sense that there is between observation and accepted authority, or between verifiable fact and tradition. The process is everywhere the same: that...
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Madness – 60″ x 60″ – Oil on Canvas – 2015 – Michael Burris Johnson I began this paining after an immersion in the early work of Michel Foucault. The image is intended to communicate the idea that...
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