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Studies on the History of Society and Culture, University of California Press

Http://www.ucpress.edu/books/SHSC.ser.php

Nadine Jansen Cam 2010

Marvin Harris, Cultural Materialism

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/ ~ felwell / theorists / Four / Presentations / Harris / index.htm

Bibliography of Marvin Harris (books only):
Minas Velhas 1953: A Study of Urbanism in the Mountains of Eastern Brazil, doctoral dissertation defended at Columbia University, Ann Arbor, University Microfilm International, Doctoral Dissertation Series No . 0005191.
1956 Town and Country in Brazil, Columbia University Press, 1956, AMS Press, 1969.
1958 Minorities in the New World, Columbia University Press. Coauthor Charles Wagley.
1959 A Background Report on Brazil, Report for the Ford Foundation. Coauthor Charles Wagley.
1964 Patterns of Races in the Americas, Walker and Company, New York.
1964 The Nature of Cultural Things, Random House, New York. 1968
War: The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression, American Museum of Natural History Press, New York.
1968 The development of anthropological theory, first published in English in editorial Siglo XXI, 1979.
1971 Introduction to general anthropology, first English edition in Alliance in 1981. He has had several editions with important changes and updates.
1974 Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches. The enigma of cultures. English edition in Alliance.
1977 Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures, English editions in Argos Vergara and Alliance. 1979
cultural materialism, English edition in Alliance in 1982.
1981 The contemporary American culture, English edition in Alliance in 1984.
Cultural Anthropology 1983, English edition in Alliance in 1990. Good to eat
1985, English edition in Alliance in 1989. 1985
Chiefs, leaders, bullies, English edition in Alliance, 1993. 1987
Death, sex and fertility, English edition in Alliance, 1991. Our species
1990, English edition Alliance in 1994.
1998 Theories of culture in the postmodern era, English edition in Criticism, 2000.

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FEATURE INTERVIEW

Focus infectious Valdivia:

ATTACK BACTERIA

With the detection of more than 10 cases, the experts conclude that Valdivia is one of the cities of Chile, with more patients infected with the bacteria leptospiria, affecting organs like the kidneys, liver and brain, plus it can even be lethal.

The leptospiria is a bacterium characteristic of the central and south American continent, which is transmitted from animals to humans, and severely damage after operation kidney, brain and / or liver can lead to death of the patient, if it is not treated quickly.

The problem is that in Chile, they do not have sufficient technical mechanisms to detect the presence of this bacteria in the bloodstream of patients, so their treatment is being delayed in most cases.

only starting in April 2000, Regulation No. 712 on Notification of Notifiable Diseases, issued by the Ministry of Health stipulates that Leptospira, Agent of Leptospirosis, will be Monitoring Laboratory under the responsibility of the Institute of Public Health.

This monitoring allows us to investigate the risks they were exposed to sick people, to adopt appropriate environmental intervention designed to prevent or correct them. However, with regard to detection of the disease on routine examinations, yet there is nothing clean.


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The liptospirosis, as it is called disease is not transmitted through consumption of meat, but through feces or secretions of birds, fish, mice and even cats that are carriers of the bacteria.

Their habitat is mostly wild. Infected animals, especially rodents such tend not to present symptoms. The bacteria remain in the host for weeks or months and, in the case of the rodents can reproduce and remain eliminated through excretion, throughout his life.

Once it is passed by the host alive, survive for weeks or months in water and soil. Both humans and animals become infected by direct contact with contaminated water, from where it enters the body through cuts or abrasions in the skin and mucous membranes of eyes, nose and mouth.

Humans also can contract the disease by direct contact with blood, tissues, organs and urine of infected animals. On the other hand, it is possible to become infected by eating Contaminated food or water, plus it has also been documented cases where the transmission was through sexual and transplacental transmission, as the scientist Zamora said in his report: "Leptospirosis: Update and status in Chile."

This disease has a usual incubation of 1 week, but can also develop between 2 and 28 days. May occur with or without obvious symptoms, and in a mild to severe and general commitment of the organs. When symptoms are often like a common cold, fever, cough, headache and general discomfort, that after some time passed, while the bacteria continues to attack the organs of infected and should go forward to a serious meningitis.

The Bachelor of Science degree and master's thesis student at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Patricia Puente, who is now in the final stage of a new study on this bacterium, called "Diagnosis of human pathogenic leptospiria" Please note that as the symptoms of leptospirosis are similar in a first step to hantavirus syndrome, have taken blood samples from people who have these symptoms to track concerned, beyond which a positive test result or negative syndrome, which transmits long mouse-coli. For now, the results of the analysis of these patients remain under medical reserve.

Valdivia Why?

The Masters Patricia Puente, also has that in her current research, the number of infected 11casos amounts to quite the top of the national average, which recognizes that "In addition to weather conditions this is mainly rural area, where high activity is practiced veterinary and agricultural, which allows transmission from animals human beings. " In his symposium

"Infections associated with natural disasters," the specialist Cecilia Perret Emerging Infections Committee of the Chilean Society of Infectious Diseases, clearly states that one of the causes of the spread of leptospirosis bacteria is related to disasters such as earthquakes, landslides and floods.

natural events are characterized by left in place, the moisture it needs these bacteria to multiply or to survive in the environment, time can be six months, mostly by the increase in the level of surface water contaminated with the bacteria.

a place of risk is Chaitén where after the eruption, there was the flooding of the land, as in Valdivia after the earthquake of 1960.

Furthermore, Riedemann and Zamora, the report of 1999 "Isolation and survival of Leptospira in kidney tissue of wild rodents, this animal identified as the main transmitter of the bacteria to humans and domestic animals "since the eliminated through the urine, which survive, especially in humid environments and become dangerous sources of infection." Doctors say

Enna Zunino and Rolando Pizarro, Hospital, Santiago, Dr. Lucio Córdova, who performed one of the most recent studies on the bacteria, published in 2007, the usual means for transmitting are changing: "Recent publications include a decreased risk relative increase in occupational and recreational related risk, especially to bathroom in stagnant water or other activities associated with adventure tourism during the summer period. "

In another area, according to Patricia Puente, the results of the "Diagnosis of human pathogenic leptospiria" will be published by mid next year.

However, por ahora, puede afirmar que, a pesar de la gran cantidad de estudios que se realizan en la Universidad Austral de Chile, en que el laboratorio de Microbiología clínica es uno de los pocos a nivel nacional que trabaja en investigaciones sobre la bacteria, aún falta difusión sobre la enfermedad que causa la leptospiria, sobre todo en el ámbito médico: “Lamentablemente, esta enfermedad, es poco conocida aún entre los médicos, por lo que es muy factible que existan personas infectadas que no estén en conocimiento de ello”.

Por lo que es esencial la preocupación de las personas, en general, por informarse y, así, prevenir el contagio con la leptospirosis.

De esta forma, only is having the proper precautions in regard to water consumption, hygiene, particularly when in contact with wilderness areas, where bacteria can easily find.

Avoid being in contact with water of questionable origin, mostly stagnant, and not consume raw animal meat. Furthermore, in the case of pets is crucial to follow a continuity in vaccines that attack the bacteria, before it invades our dogs and cats then infect us.

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bacteria that affect human health:

LEPTOSPIRIA IN VALDIVIA

• The leptospiria, which is a pathogenic bacterium, it causes damage to human health, and zoonotic it is transmitted from animals to humans, are present in the environment southern Chile, and especially in Valdivia.

• Causes a disease called leptospirosis, which affects the kidneys, liver and brain, primarily, and if not treated in time, depending on how aggressive the agent, can cause death.


As the Universidad Austral de Chile, one of the most performed studies leptospiria in Chile, Patricia Puente, Bachelor and Master of Science in Microbiology, in this university, tells of his recent work: "Diagnosis of pathogenic Leptospira in humans."


Basically, what is your studio based?

My study is the diagnosis of pathogenic Leptospira from patients with symptoms associated with infection. Related hantavirus syndrome. Respiratory problems, kidney and liver in patients of the Health Service of Valdivia. Samples are taken at the Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Uach. Both

diseases are transmitted through the same host, who is the mouse, so I suspect that may have positive patients because the symptoms are very similar. We investigate whether patients are positive for Leptospira, both positive and negative hantavirus.

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From the analysis you've done, how many people have been infected?

Two years ago we have been studying a number of patients, of whom 11 have been infected with the bacteria.

And what is the current health status of these patients?

His current medical record kept under reserve. Surely, when we finish and get all the results of diagnostic leptospiria will be published.
The specialist identifies natural disasters as a major factor facilitating the spread with the bacteria, which mentions Valdivia and the 1960 earthquake.

Yes, there is high humidity Valdivia. Floods, for example, help to spread, because water is the main vehicle for transmitting the bacteria can survive after heating for long periods.

Can you say, then, that Valdivia is one of the cities where the disease occurs more at the national level?

Yes, plus the weather this is a mainly rural area, where high activity is practiced veterinary and agricultural, which allows transmission from animals to humans.

other hand, here at the University, many years ago that are doing studies, Dr. Estela Riedemann, in particular, being one of the few laboratories in Chile, where they make these scientific investigations.

As to how to detect this bacterium in patients of public services, what do you think the techniques are used, which failed to identify even in Chile, the bacteria, unless a study specific?

The truth is that the culture of the bacteria is very complex. So there must have in order to identify serovars. Making it very difficult to detect medical patients.

Thus, once an interest by the Health Service, by modifying the mechanisms by which bacteria is detected?
Well, now, who cares this is the SAG. That is the one who sends samples to the institutes.

What is medical treatment to combat leptospirosis?

mainly antibiotics. But its application depends on the type of infecting serovars, some growers are aggressive with humans, such as mouse, wherein if not detected early, can be late.

What if a person eats pork infected with the bacteria?

cooked meat with no increased risk, unless it was contaminated with animal urine or blood in the case of a recent infection.

And what happens in the case of niache, the Chilean custom, especially in the south, consuming raw blood of the lamb?

In that case, yes there are risks, with an infected animal. When handling raw meat, especially if the person is injured or becomes Contact the blood of the animal with the eyes, which is also a way where it enters the infection.

What about the slaughter?

We take samples from abattoirs, to see if the animals that are there have some form of vaccination to prevent infection of the bacteria by staff handling raw meat. What has been successful in most of the slaughterhouses studied. Although there are a few, less production, maintaining hygiene systems are not recommended.

What are the key findings of the study so far?

Well until now we can say that there is no relationship between patients with symptoms of hantavirus, with infection of leptospirosis. Yet the prevalence remains low, as shown by previous studies, in which the bacterium is presented with an 8 and 10% prevalence.

We do, unfortunately, is that this disease is little known even among doctors, so it is very possible there are infected people who are not aware of it.

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What is critical? Judith Butler on Foucault

What is critical? An essay on Foucault under

Translation Marcelo Expósito, reviewed by Joaquín Barriendos



Judith Butler What is a critique? I'll bet this is something most of us understand in the ordinary sense. The issue, however, is complicated if we try to distinguish between a critique of this or that position and criticism as a more general practice that could be described without reference to its objects concrete. Can we even wonder about the general nature without implying an essence of the criticism? And if for the generalized picture saying we did something that approaches a philosophy of criticism, would we then lose the distinction between philosophy and critical part of the very definition of criticism? Criticism is always critical in any practice, discourse, episteme, institution, and it loses its character when it is abstracted from its operation and made to stand alone as a purely practical generalizable. However, while this certainly does not mean it's impossible any kind of generalization or we are mired in particularism. On the contrary, here we travel in an area of \u200b\u200bconstrained generalization that addresses the philosophical, but should, if it is to remain critical, keep distance from their own results.

The essay Foucault's work, but let me begin by suggesting an interesting parallel between what Raymond Williams and Theodor Adorno pursued each in his own way under the name of "critical" [Criticism] and what Foucault sought to understand " criticism "[critique]. I'm sure part of Foucault's own contribution to the progressive political philosophy, and their alliance with, will clearly in the course of this comparison.

Raymond Williams was concerned about the fact that criticism has been unduly restricted the notion of "fault-finding," [1] and proposed that we find a vocabulary for the types of responses we have, in particular for cultural works, "not assume the habit (or right or duty) of the trial." What they claimed was a more specific type of response not generalize too quickly: "What is always important to understand the specificity of the response, which is not a" trial "but a practice." [2] I believe the latter line also marks the path of Foucault on this matter, and that his "criticism" is not a practice that is reduced to suspend the trial, but the proposal for a new practice based on values \u200b\u200bthat are based precisely on that suspension.

So, to Williams, the practice of criticism is not reducible to arriving at judgments (and express). Significantly, Adorno makes a similar claim when he wrote about "the danger [...] represented by a mechanical, purely logical-formal, administrative, deciding about and assimilating them into the prevailing constellations of power that spirit would rather be analyzed, according to real competition. "[3] So the task of exposing these constellations of power "is impeded by the rush of a" mechanical view "as a critical issue. For Adorno, the very operation serves to impose a split between critics and the social world within our reach, in a move that reverses the results of their own work because it constitutes "a waiver of material practice." [4] Adorno writes that "[the] own sovereignty [the critic or the criticism], the claim to possess a profound knowledge of the object before the object, the separation between concept and thing for the independence of view, carries with it the danger of succumbing the configuration-value of the thing; as cultural criticism appeals to a collection of ideas becomes established and isolated categories fetishes. "[5] critique to operate as part of a 'material practice', according to Adorno, has to grasp the ways in which the very categories are instituted, the way ordering the field of knowledge, and how this field suppresses returns, so to speak, as its own constitutive occlusion. The trial, for both thinkers, is a way of subsuming a particular under an already constituted category, while the critical questions the constitution occlusive field of knowledge to which categories themselves. Thinking the problem of freedom, and ethics in general, beyond the view, it is especially important for Foucault: critical thinking would be right in that endeavor.

In 1978, Foucault gave a lecture entitled, "What is Critique?, [6] a work that paved the way for his trial, known, What is Enlightenment? (1984). In He not only asks what is critical, but also seeks to understand what kind of issue provide criticism, tentatively offering some ways to limit its activity. What remains perhaps most importantly, both the conference and the trial later developed, is the question form which sets out the case. Because the very question, "what is critique? part of the critical enterprise in question and the question not only raises the question - what is this criticism which is supposed to do or we should aspire? - but also represents a certain mode of questioning, central the activity of critique itself.

Moreover, I would suggest that Foucault seeks to this question is quite different than perhaps we have come to expect criticism. Habermas became very problematic work of criticism by suggesting that if what we were looking was able to use norms in making evaluative judgments about social conditions and the purposes it was necessary to go beyond critical theory. The prospect of criticism from his point of view, you can put foundations into question, distorting the social and political hierarchies, and even establish perspectives by which they can make a certain distance from the naturalized world. But none of these activities can tell us which direction we should move, or whether the activities in which we engage are realizing certain kinds of normatively justified goals. From their point of view, therefore, critical theory had to give way to a theory more robust rules, such as communicative action, in order to supply a foundation for critical theory with which normative judgments can be strong, [7] not only that politics will have a clear purpose and normative aspiration, but also to be able to assess current practices in terms of their ability to reach those goals. Doing this kind of criticism of criticism, Habermas became curiously uncritical about the very sense of normativity he. For the question "What should we do?" Presupposes that the "we" has been formed and is known, that its action is possible and the field in which it might act is defined. But if those same formations and delimitations have normative consequences, then you must ask for the values \u200b\u200bthat form the backdrop of action, and this will become an important dimension of any critical research on policy issues.

Although it is possible that the Habermasians have an answer to this problem, my aim today is not to rehearse these debates nor to answer, but to mark the distance between a notion of critique that is characterized by being in some sense weakened by the regulations, and other, which I offer here, which not only is more complex than the usual criticism assumes, but is, I want to argue that strong policy commitments displayed in ways that would be difficult if not impossible, to read the current grammars of regulation. In this essay, in fact, I hope to show that Foucault not only makes an important contribution to normative theory, but that both his aesthetics and his account of the subject are intimately related to his ethics and politics. While some have dismissed esthete or, indeed, a nihilist, my suggestion is that the raid made on the issue of self-construction and poiesis is central to policy of desubjugation proposed. Paradoxically, the building itself and the desubjugation adventure happen simultaneously when a mode of existence that does not hold in what he calls "regime of truth."

Foucault begins his discussion by stating that there are several grammars for the term "critical" distinction between a "high company Kantian" criticism and called "small activities that are called critical controversies." Thus, we are warned from the beginning of that criticism is not one thing, and we will not be able to define it separately from its various objects, which in turn define it: "It seems driven by nature, function, say that by profession, dispersion, dependence, heteronomy to pure [...]. [T] here exists only in relation to something other than itself. "[8]

Foucault thus seeks to define the criticism, but finds that may only be a number of approaches. The criticism will be dependent on its objects, but objects to change their defined the very meaning of criticism. Moreover, the primary task of criticism is to evaluate whether its objects-social conditions, practices, forms of knowledge, power and discourse are good or bad, valued highly or dismissed, but highlight the specific context of evaluation. What is the relationship of knowledge to power that makes our epistemological certainties support a way of structuring the world that forecloses possibilities of ordering alternatives? Of course, we think we need ideological certainty to say with certainty that the world is and ought to be ordered in a certain way. To what extent, however, such certainty is orchestrated by certain types of knowledge precisely to foreclose the possibility of thinking otherwise? At this point it would be wise to ask what good is thinking otherwise if you do not know in advance that thinking otherwise will produce a better world if we have a moral framework in which to make informed that some new possibilities or ways to think otherwise will bring that world as best we can judge by insurance and pre-established standards? This has become something of a regular Foucault and those engaged in it. The relative silence that has greeted this habit of fault-finding in Foucault is a sign that his theory has no reassuring answers to give? I think so, we must accept that the answers being proffered do not have as their primary aim. But this, of course, does not mean that if something waiver reassurance is, by definition, as a response. In fact, the only rejoinder, I think, is returning to a more fundamental meaning of "critical" to see what's wrong with the way the question is put, to formulate the question again, so that can draw a more productive approach to the place of ethics within politics. One might wonder, indeed, if what I mean by "productive" is gauged by standards and measures that are willing to disclose or to grasp in full at the time they make such a claim. But here I would ask patience, it turns out that the criticism is a practice that requires a certain amount of patience, like reading, according to Nietzsche, requires that we act a little more like cows than humans, learning the art of slow rumination.

Foucault's contribution to what appears to be an impasse in critical theory and postcritical of our time is just asking us to rethink critique as a practice in which we pose the question of the limits of our most sure ways of knowledge, what Williams referred to as our "uncritical mental habits 'and Adorno described as an ideology (the only non-ideological thinking is that which can not be reduced to' operational terms' but tries to help the things themselves to that language that is usually blocked by the dominant language "[9]). One does not drive to the limit to be an exciting experience, or because the limit is dangerous and sexy, or because it brings us to an exciting close to evil. One asks about the limits of ways of knowing because it has already encountered a crisis within the epistemological field in which it lives. The categories by which social life is ordered produce a certain incoherence or entire realms that can not speak. It is from this condition, a tear in the fabric of our network practice epistemological critique emerges, with the awareness that no discourse is adequate or that our reigning discourses have produced an impasse. Indeed, the very debate in which the point of view the war strong normative critical theory may produce precisely that form of discursive impasse resulted in the necessity and urgency of criticism.

For Foucault, critique "is an instrument, through a future or a truth that she did not know and will not be, is a view on a domain that you want to monitor and whose law is not able to establish." So the criticism is that perspective on established ways of knowing and ordering that is not immediately assimilated to such an ordering function. Foucault, significantly, brings together this account of the epistemological field limit the practice of virtue, as if virtue is contrary to the regulation and order, as if virtue itself would have to find in fact jeopardize the order established. Not shy about the relationship established herein. Writes, "there is something in the criticism that is akin to virtue." And then he says something that might be considered even more surprising: "this critical attitude [is] virtue in general." [10]

There are some preliminary ways to understand Foucault's effort to shape the criticism as a virtue. Virtue is most often understood as an attribute or practice of a subject, or as a quality that defines and characterizes a certain kind of action or practice. Belongs to an ethic that is not satisfied merely by following objectively formulated rules or laws. And virtue is not only a way or a way to agree or comply with established rules. It is, more radically, a critical relation to those rules, for Foucault, takes the form of a specific stylization of morality.

Foucault gives us an indication of what it means virtue in the introduction of the History of Sexuality 2. The Use of Pleasure. [11] In this situation makes clear that seeks to go beyond a notion of ethical philosophy that promulgates a set of prescriptions. And the critical philosophy intersects no match at all with it, Foucault looks at the introduction to his own thinking is an example of non-prescriptive form of moral inquiry. In the same way later ask about forms of moral experience that are not rigidly defined by a legal law, rule, or command to which the subject is asked to undergo mechanical or uniformly. The essay that he writes, he says, is itself an example of such a practice "to explore what, in their own thoughts can be changed through exercise [...] of knowledge that is foreign." [12 ] Moral experience is about self-transformation caused by a form of knowledge that is foreign to oneself. And this form of moral experience will be different from the submission of a mandate. Indeed, as Foucault interrogates the moral experience, understands that he is conducting research on the moral experiences that are not primarily or fundamentally structured by prohibition or injunction.

In the first volume of History of Sexuality [13] sought to show that the primary interdictions assumed by psychoanalysis and the structuralist cultural prohibitions can not be accepted as historical constants. Moreover, the moral experience can not be understood through a series Ominous predominant bans in a given historical time. Although there are codes to study, should be provided in relation to the modes of subjection to which they correspond. Foucault argues that the law juridification reaches a certain hegemony in the thirteenth century, but if one goes back to classical Greek and Roman cultures are practices, or "arts of existence" [14] that have to do with a relationship cultivated the self to itself.

With the introduction of the concept of "arts of existence," Foucault also reintroduces and re-emphasizes the actions "Sensible and voluntary ', namely' those practices [...] why men not only set rules of conduct, but seek to transform themselves, in their singular being modified and make your life a work that has certain aesthetic values \u200b\u200band meets certain standards of style. " Such lives do not simply conform to moral precepts or norms in ways that selves considered preformed or ready-made, fit into a mold that the rule sets. By contrast, the self creates itself in the terms of the norm, to inhabit and incorporate the standard, but the rule in this context is not external to the principle according to which the self is formed. What is at stake for Foucault is not the behavior, ideas, companies or their "ideology" but "the problematics through which being is given as being able and due to be thought and practices from those which are formed." [15 ]

Although this latter statement is hardly transparent, suggesting is that certain types of practices designed to handle certain types of problems have meant that, over time, establish an ontological domain that in turn constrains what understand as possible. Only with reference to the prevailing ontological horizon, he instituted through a series of practices, we will be able understand the various ways of relating to the moral precepts that have been formed as well as those that are to be formed. For instance, he considers at length various practices of austerity, and he ties with the production of a certain kind of male subject. Austerity practices attest to a single and permanent ban, but work in the service of crafting a certain kind of self. Put more precisely, the self, incorporating the rules of conduct that represent the virtue of austerity, it creates itself as a specific kind of subject. Self-production is "the elaboration and stylization of an activity in the exercise of its power and practice of freedom. "[16] It is a practice that is opposed to pleasure pure and simple, but a certain practice of pleasure in itself, a practice of pleasure in the context of moral experience.

Thus, Foucault makes clear in the third section of the same input will not suffice to offer a historical account of the moral codes, such a history can not tell us how you experienced these codes and, more specifically, what subject-formation rate required and facilitated. Foucault begins to play here as a phenomenologist. But besides appealing to the experiential means to capture the moral categories, too takes a critical move, while the subjective relation to these standards will be neither predictable nor mechanical. The relationship with these categories will be "critical" in the sense that there is respect them, but in forming a relationship with them to question its own field of categorizing, referring, at least implicitly, to the limits of epistemological horizon within which these practices are formed. It is not practical to refer the epistemological context given in advance, but to establish critical as the practice that exposes the limits of the same epistemological horizon, making the contours of horizon, so we might say, in relation to its own limit for the first time. It further appears that the critical practice concerned the transformation of the self in relation to a rule of conduct. So how self-transformation leads to the exposure of this limit, how means the transformation of himself as "practice of freedom" and how to understand this practice as part of the lexicon of virtue in Foucault?

Let's start by understanding the notion of self-transformation is at stake here, and then consider how it relates to the problem called "critical" which is the focus of our deliberations. One thing is, of course, conducted in relation to a code of conduct, and other training as an ethical subject in relation to a code of conduct (and yet another thing to form oneself as that which threatens the order of the code itself). The rules of chastity Foucault provide an important example. There is a difference, for example, in not acting on desires that would violate a precept to which one is morally bound and developing a practice of desire, so to speak, by a certain project or work ethic. The model according to which submission is required to force a rule not to act in certain ways, installing effective prohibition against acting out of certain desires. But the model that Foucault seeks to understand and, indeed, incorporate and exemplify takes moral prescription to participate in the formation of a type of action. Foucault's argument seems to be that the waiver and the ban does not necessarily require an ethical or non-active person, but form an ethical mode of conduct and a way to stylize both the action and pleasure.

I think Foucault this contrast between a command-based ethics and ethical practice centrally involved in the formation of self sheds an important light on the distinction between obedience and virtue that offers in his essay "What is critical? Foucault contrasts this understanding of "virtue" to be defined, with obedience, showing how the possibility of this form of virtue is set by its difference from an uncritical obedience to authority.

resistance to authority, of course, is for Foucault the hallmark of the Enlightenment. He offers us a reading of the Enlightenment which not only his own continuity with its purposes, but even offers a reading of his own dilemmas back to the same history of the Enlightenment. His considerations are such that no thinker "enlightened" would accept, but this resistance does not negate the characterization of the Enlightenment that Foucault gives us, since what is sought is precisely what her "unexpected" within the wording of the Enlightenment, therefore, his is a critical history. From their point of view, the criticism begins questioning the demand for absolute obedience and subjected to rational evaluation and reflective governmental obligation imposed on all subjects. Although Foucault does not follow this turn to reason, nevertheless ask what criteria defining the types of reasons having to do with the questioning of obedience. Be particularly interested in the problem of how that field delimited forms the subject and how, in turn, a subject comes to form and reform those reasons. This capacity to form reasons will be significantly related to self-transforming relationship mentioned above. Be critical of an authority that is passed as absolute requires a critical practice that has at its core self-transformation.

But how we understand the reasons we might have to accept a demand to form such grounds ourselves and ourselves, and then to transform in the course of producing these reasons (and, finally, putting at risk the right field)? Is the different types of problems or is that one invariably lead for the other? Is the autonomy achieved in forming reasons and that is the basis for accepting or rejecting a law given in advance as well as self-transformation that occurs when a rule is incorporated in the action of the subject? As we shall see, both the transformation of self in relation to ethical precepts and the practice of criticism are considered forms of "art", stylized and repetitions, suggesting that there is no ability to accept or reject a rule without an ego that is stylized in response to the ethical demand upon it.

In the context in which obedience is required, Foucault locates the desire that the question "how not to be governed? ". This desire, and wonder that it is derived, forms the central impetus of criticism. Of course, what is unclear is how the desire not to be governed is linked to virtue. He does make clear, however, is that it raises the possibility of radical anarchy, and that the issue is not how to become radically ungovernable. It is a specific question that arises in connection with a specific form of government: "How not to be governed that way, by that, on behalf of those principles, in view of these goals and through such procedures, not that form, not for that, not for them. "[17]

This becomes the signature mark of "critical attitude" [18] and its particular virtue. For Foucault, the question itself opens up a moral and political attitude, "the art of not being governed or the art of not being governed like that and at that price." [19] Whatever the virtue that Foucault limited here will have to do with objecting to that imposition of power, price, how it is administered, those who administer it. One is tempted to think that Foucault is simply describing the resistance, but here it seems that "virtue" has taken the place of that term, or becomes the means by which resistance is described differently. We'll have to ask why. Moreover, this virtue is also described as an "art", the art of not being governed "so", then what is the relationship at work here between aesthetics and ethics?

He finds the origins of criticism in terms of resistance to ecclesiastical authority. In relation to the doctrine of the Church, "not wanting to be governed was a certain way of refusing, challenging, limiting (say it as you like) ecclesiastical, was the return to Scripture [...] was the question of what kind of truth that the Scripture says. "[20] And this objection is clearly waged on behalf of a alternative or at least emerging ground of truth and justice. This leads Foucault to make a second definition of "critical": "Not wanting to be ruled [...] not wanting to accept these laws because they are unfair because [...] hide a fundamental illegitimacy." [21] Criticism is

This exposes the illegitimacy, but not because recourse to a political or moral essentials. Foucault writes that the critical project is "the government and the obedience it demands", and what critical means in this context is "to oppose a universal and inalienable rights to which every government, whatever it is, whether a monarch , the judge, the educator, the parent must be submitted. "[22] The practice of criticism, however, does not discover these universal rights, as claimed by the theorists of the Enlightenment, but that" opposes. " However, there's not as positive rights. The 'oppose' is an act that limits the power of law, an act that rivals offset and the operations of power, power at the time of renewal. Is itself a limitation, a limitation which takes the form of a question and asserts, in its very assertion, a "right" to question. Since the sixteenth century onwards, the question 'how not to be governed "becomes more specific to "what are the limits of the right to rule?". "Not wanting to be governed" is certainly not accept as true [...] what an authority tells you is true or, at least, is not to accept the fact that an authority says it is, is not to accept more than if one considers himself as good reasons to accept it. "[23] There is of course a fair amount of ambiguity in this situation, because what will constitute a valid reason to accept the authority? Does the validity derived from the consent to accept authority? If so, does consent validates the reasons given, whatever they are? Or is it more either you give your consent only on the basis of a valid prior verifiable? Besides, these prior reasons, in their validity, make the consent valid? If the first alternative is correct, then the consent is the criterion by which to judge the validity, it would appear that Foucault's position is reduced to a form of voluntarism. But what perhaps gives us through the "critical" is an act, even a practice of freedom that can not be reduced easily to voluntarism, because the practice by establishing limits on the absolute authority depends mainly on the horizon of knowledge effects within the which it operates. The critical practice does not emanate from the innate freedom of the soul, but is formed in the crucible of a particular exchange between a set of rules or precepts (which are already there) and a stylization of acts (which extends and reformulates that prior series rules and regulations). This stylization of the self in relation to the rules is what comes to be a "practice."

From the standpoint of Foucault, dimly following Kant, the act of consent is a reflexive movement by which the validity is attributed to or withdrawn from the authority. But this reflexivity does not take place internally in a subject. For Foucault, it is an act that poses some risk, because it is not only object to this or that governmental demand, but to ask about the order in which such a demand is made legible as possible. And if what one objects to the epistemological orders that have established the validity rules government, then say 'no' to the demand will require abandoning their established validity reasons, marking the limit of such validity, which is something different and much more risky than finding a given demand invalid. In this dispute, we might say, one begins to enter a critical relation to such systems and the ethical precepts which they give rise. The problem with these reasons that Foucault calls "illegitimate" is not that are partial, leading to self-contradictory or hypocritical moral. The problem is precisely that they seek to foreclose the critical relation, that is, to extend their own power to order the entire field of moral and political opinion. Orchestrate and exhaust the field of certainty. How does one call into question the depth that such rules of ordering have the certainty without risking the uncertainty without inhabiting that place of hesitation that exposes one to accusations of immorality, evil, aestheticism? The critical attitude is not moral is in accordance with the rules whose limits the same critical relationship seeks to interrogate. So how else can critique do their work without risk being denounced by those who naturalize and the hegemony of moral terms that critics called into question?

Foucault's distinction between government and governmentality seeks to show that the unit denoting the former enters into the practices of those who are being governed, in their own ways of knowing, their very ways of being. To be governed is not only that one is imposing a form of its existence, but to be given the terms in which existence will not be possible. A subject will emerge in relation to an established order of truth, but it can take a point views on the established order that retrospectively suspends its own ontological ground.

[S] i governmentalization is [...] this movement which was, in the reality of a social practice of subjecting individuals through mechanisms of power that a true, well I would say that criticism is the movement by which the subject gives the right [le donne le droit subject] to question the truth about the effects of power and question power on its discourses of truth. [24]

Note here that the subject is said that "it gives that right ', a mode of self-assigned and authorized it seems to foreground reflexivity of the claim. Is it then a self-generated movement which shores up the subject over and against an authority which exerts a force opposite? And what difference does it make, if any, that this assignment and designation of self emerges as an "art"? "Criticism," writes Foucault, is the art of voluntary insubordination, that of reflected intractability [l'indocilité réfléchie]. " If it is an "art" in the sense that he gives, then the criticism can not be a single act, nor shall belong exclusively to the subjective domain, for it will be the stylized relation to the requirement that the subject is imposed. And the style will be important to the extent that, as the style is not entirely determined in advance, as it includes a contingency in the course of time that marks the limits of the ordering capacity of the field in question. So the styling of this "will" produce a subject that is not readily to be known under the rubric of established truth. Even more radical Foucault states: "The criticism would essentially function desubjugation [désassujetiisement] in the game of what could be called, in a word, the politics of truth." [25]

's policy truth refers to those power relations that circumscribe in advance what will and will not count as true, ordering the world in certain regular and regulatable ways and we come to accept as the given field of knowledge. We understand the importance of this point when we begin to wonder: what counts as a person?, What counts as a coherent gender?, What qualifies as a citizen?, "Whose world is legitimated as real? Subjectively, we ask: who I can be in a world where the meanings and limits of the subject I have been determined in advance? By what norms am I constrained as I begin to ask what could I get?, and what happens when I start to become that for which there is no place within the given regime of truth?, is not that precisely what is meant by "desubjugation the subject in the game policy of truth "?

What is at stake here is the relationship between the limits of ontology and epistemology, the link between the limits of what I could become and the limits of what could threaten to know. Deriving from Kant sense of "critical", Foucault poses the question that is the question of critique itself: "Do you know how far you can know?". "Our freedom is at stake. " In this way, freedom comes at the limits of what one can know, at the precise moment the desubjugation the subject takes place within the politics of truth in some practice time begins questioning takes the following form "What am I, then, that belong to this humanity, perhaps to this, at this moment, this moment of humanity that is subject to the power of truth in general and of the truths in particular?". [26 ] Put another way: what, given the contemporary order of being, I can be? If in posing this question, liberty is at stake, it could be that jeopardize the freedom has something to do with what Foucault calls virtue, with a certain risk that is at stake by thought and, indeed, through language, and that makes the contemporary order of being is brought to its limit.

But how to understand the contemporary order of being where I get myself involved? Foucault, at this point, decided to characterize this order to be historically conditioned by linking it to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, identifying the "rationalization" as governmentalizing effect on ontology. Partnering with a left-Kantian critical tradition, Foucault writes: From left

Hegel to the Frankfurt School, there has been any criticism of positivism, objectivism, rationalization, of techne and expanding technology, a complete critique of relations between the key project of science and technology, which has The objective was to show the connections between science's naive assumption on the one hand, and the forms of domination characteristic of contemporary society as the other. [27]

From their point of view, rationalization takes a new form when it comes to the service of biopower. And so it is still difficult for most of the social and critical in this situation is to discern the relationship between "Rationalization and power." [28] What appears to be a merely epistemic order, a way of ordering the world, can not immediately recognize the constraints by which that ordering takes place. Nor easily shows how the intensification and the aggregation of rationalizing effects lead to an intensification of power. Foucault asks, 'How is it that rationalization leads to the furor of power? ". Clearly, the ability to rationalize is to penetrate into the currents of life not only characterizes the modes of scientific practice, "but also social relations, government organizations, practices economic and perhaps even the behavior of individuals. "[29] reaches its" anger "and its limits when it seizes and pervades the subject than subjective. Power sets the limits of what an individual can "be" beyond which no longer "is" or live in an area of \u200b\u200bontology suspended. But the power seeks to constrain the subject through the force of coercion, and resistance to coercion is the self-stylization in the limits of being established.

One of the first tasks of criticism is to discern between "enforcement mechanisms" and "content knowledge." [30] Here again we seem to face the limits of what can be known, limits that have a certain force without being grounded in any necessity, limits can only be tread or interrogated by risking a certain security in an ontology:

Nothing can exist as an element of whether one hand, does not conform to a set of rules and constraints characteristic, for example, a type of scientific discourse in a given period, and if, moreover, is not equipped with the effects of coercion or simply the incentives themselves what is scientifically validated or simply rational or simply generally accepted common, etc. [31].

He then continues to show that knowledge and power are not finally separable, but work together to establish a series of subtle and explicit criteria for thinking the world: "It is not, then, to describe what knowledge is and what power is and how repress each other, or how the other abuse the one, but is rather to describe a nexus of knowledge-power that would grasp what constitutes the acceptability of a system. "[32]

critic or criticism therefore has a double task, to show how knowledge and power work to constitute a more or less systematic way of ordering the world with its own "conditions of acceptability of a system" but also "To follow the breaking points which indicate its emergence." So not only is necessary to isolate and identify the peculiar link between knowledge and power that gives rise to the field of intelligible things, but also to track how this field is its breaking point, its moments of discontinuity , places in which intelligibility can not be represented. What this means is that one should look for both conditions by which the field is constituted, but also the limits of those conditions, the times they point their contingency and their transformability. In terms of Foucault: "So, roughly speaking, constant mobility, essential fragility or rather the complex interplay between what replicates the same process and what transforms it. "[33]

Indeed, another way of talking about this dynamic of critique is to say that the rationalization finds its limits in desubjugation . Desubjugation If the subject emerges at the time the episteme constituted through rationalization exposes its limit, then desubjugation marks precisely the fragility and transformability epistemic power.

criticism begins with the presumption of governmentalization and then when it fails to aggregate the subject seeks to know and to subjugate. But the means by which this relationship articulates is described, in a disconcerting way, as fiction. Why would it be fiction? In what sense is it fiction? Foucault refers to a "historical-philosophical practice [in which] it is to make their own history, to make a fiction [de faire comme par fiction] story would be traversed by the issue of relations between structures of rationality that articulate true discourse and locking mechanisms that are linked to it. "[34] There is thus a dimension of the methodology itself which feeds the fiction, which draws lines between fiction and streamlining desubjugation between the knowledge-power nexus and its fragility and limit. We are not told what kind of fiction be it, but it seems clear that Foucault on Nietzsche and, in particular in the kind of fiction that is said to genealogy.

may remember that although it seems that for Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is an attempt to locate the origins of values, which is actually seeking to find out how the very notion of "origin" has been instituted. And the means by which he seeks to explain the origin is fictional. He tells a fable about the nobility, the other on a social contract, another about a slave revolt, and yet another on the relationship between creditor and debtor. None of these fables can be located in either space or time, and any effort to try to find the historical complement to Nietzsche's genealogies necessarily fail. In fact, instead of a story that finds the origin of the securities or the source of origin, we read fictional stories about how values \u200b\u200boriginate. A noble say something is, and then become: the speech act inaugurates the value and becomes something of an occasion atopic and timeless for the origin of values. Indeed, the way Nietzsche's fiction mirrors the opening one's actions that are attributed to those values. So not only describes that process, but description becomes an instance of value production, enacting the very process of narrating.

How can this particular use of fiction in relation to Foucault's notion of critique? It should be noted that Foucault is trying to understand the possibility of desubjugation within rationalization without assuming that there is a source of resistance that is housed in the subject or preserved in a foundation. Where does resistance come from? Can we say that is an increase of some human freedom shackled by the powers of rationalization? If he speaks, as it does from a desire not to be governed, How are we to understand that is the status of that will?

In response to a question on this line, [35] noted:

I do not think, in fact, that the will not be governed at all is something we can consider as an original aspiration [je ne pense pas in effect that the volonté of n'être pas du tout Gouvernes soit quelque chose que l'on puisse deems comme une aspiration originaire]. I think, in fact, will not be governed is always the desire not to be governed well, so, for they, at this price. [36]

goes on to warn against the absolutism of this will that philosophy always is tempted to perform. Seeks to avoid what he calls "the philosophical and theoretical paroxysm of what would be this will not be fairly governed." [37] makes it clear that taking into consideration the will is involved in the problem of its origin, and approximates progress in this field, but Nietzsche reluctance prevails. Foucault writes:

I was not referring to a kind of fundamental anarchism, it would be like the original freedom [qui serait comme la liberté originaire] rebel absolutely, and in essence [absolutement are fond et en], all governmentality. I did not say, but that does not mean that I absolutely exclude [Je ne l'ai dit, mais cela ne pas vout dire que je l'exclus absolutement]. I think that indeed, my exposition stop there: it had already lasted too long, but also because I wonder [mais aussi parce que je sue me] [...] if you want to explore this dimension of the criticism I seems so important, both because it is part of philosophy and that is not part of it, if we explore this dimension of criticism, would not it be a forwarded, based on the critical attitude to what would be [qui serait ou] the historical practice of revolt, of non-acceptance of a real government, on the one hand, or, on the other, the individual refusal of governmentality [38]

Whatever it is that in which one draws when resisting governmentalization will be "like an original freedom" and something "that would be [as] the historical practice of revolt" (emphasis mine). Like them, in effect, but apparently not quite the same. As Foucault's mention of "original freedom" he offers and withdraws it at a time. "I did not say" he remarks, after much closer to say, after showing how he almost said, after exercising that very closeness open for us in what can be understood as a kind of mockery. What speech is that almost seduces him here, holding to its terms? How does one separate from the terms that he refuses? What is this art form in which a critical distance running almost swing for us? Is this the same distance that the practice of wondering, of questioning? What limits of knowledge dare to broach as he wonders out loud for us? The opening scene of criticism involves "the art of voluntary insubordination," and is here given the voluntary or, in fact, "original freedom", but in the form of a conjecture in an art form that suspends the ontology and leaves us suspended in disbelief.

He finds a way to say "freedom original ', and I guess it gives him great pleasure to utter these words, pleasure and fear. He speaks, but only through staging the words, avoiding an ontological commitment, but releasing so they can have some use. You mean the original freedom here? Looking to use it? Did you find the original source of freedom and drunk from it? Or does indicate, significantly, mentions it, say it without actually saying it? Is he invoking so that we can revive its echoes and know its power? Put the term scene is not declare, but we could say that the statement is staged, artistically presented, subject to ontological suspension, precisely so that it can be said. And we could also say that this speech act, which is that for a moment highlights the phrase "original freedom" epistemic policy prominently in the living, is also running some desubjugation the subject in politics of truth. For when one speaks that way, is at once seized and released by the words yet says. Of course, politics is not a simple matter of speaking, and it is my intention to rehabilitate Aristotle in the form of Foucault (although, I confess, that movement intrigues me, and I mention it now to allow this possibility at the same time without committing to it.) In this verbal gesture toward the end of his lecture is exemplified a certain freedom, because no reference to the term without any foundational anchor, but the artful performance of the term release of his usual discursive constraints, the assumption that one can speak only knowing in advance what should be its anchor.

Foucault's gesture is oddly brave, I would suggest, because he knows he can not find a reason for their claim of original freedom. This knowledge allows no particular use you have in your speech. Anyway He braves it, and so his mention, his insistence, becomes an allegory for a certain risk-taking that occurs at the boundary of the epistemological field. And this becomes a practice of virtue, perhaps, and not, as its critics profess, a sign of moral despair, precisely to the extent that the practice of this language suggests a value that does not know how to ensure or for which offer a reason, but equally it is proposed, and thus shows that a certain intelligibility exceeds the limits of intelligibility that knowledge and power has already been established. This is the virtue in the minimal sense precisely because it offers the perspective by which the subject gains a critical distance from established authority. But is also an act of courage, acting without guarantees, putting the individual at risk within the limits of its system. Who would Foucault, should I say these words? What desubjugation perform for us with this statement?

gain a critical distance from established authority means for Foucault not only to recognize the ways in which the coercive effects of knowledge are at work in the same subject formation, but also put at risk the very formation as a subject. Thus, in The Subject and Power refers to "this form of power that applies itself to immediate everyday life which categorizes the individual assigned their own individuality, attaches him to his own identity, imposes a law of truth about himself that he is obliged to acknowledge and that others should recognize it. "[39] And when the law falters or breaks, the possibility of recognition is compromised. So when we ask how we might say "originary freedom," and say it in amazement, we also put into question the subject who is said to be rooted in that term, releasing, paradoxically, for a venture that could actually give the term a new substance and possibility.

To be concluded, simply go back to the introduction of The Use of Pleasure, which Foucault defined the practices of concern, "the arts of existence", as that which has to do with a cultivated relation of self to itself. This formulation brings us closer to the strange kind of virtue that Foucault antifoundationalism comes to represent. In fact, as I wrote before, when he introduces the notion of "arts of existence" also refers to such arts of existence as producing subjects who "seek to transform themselves, in their singular being modified and make your life a work that has certain aesthetic values \u200b\u200band meets certain standards of style. "[40] might think that this supports the claim that Foucault has aestheticized full existence at the expense of ethics, but I would suggest only that he has shown us that there can be no ethics, no politics, without such a unique sense of poiesis. The subject who is formed in accordance with the principles furnished by the discourse of truth is not yet the subject who tries to form itself. Engaged in the "arts of existence", this guy is modeling and model, and the line between how it is formed, and how it becomes a kind of forming, is not clearly drawn, if it exists. Because this is not a subject is formed and then suddenly starts to form itself. By contrast, the formation of the subject is the institution of the very reflexivity that indistinguishably bears the burden of training. The "indistinguishability" is precisely the juncture at which social norms intersect with ethical requirements, and where both are produced in the context of self-realization is never fully self.

Although Foucault refers quite directly to the intention and deliberation, we also know how difficult it will be to understand this self-stylization in terms of any received of intent and deliberation. For an understanding of the revision of terms such that their use requires, Foucault introduces the term 'modes of subjectivity " or "subjectivity." Not refer simply to the way the subject is formed, but how it becomes self-forming. This becoming an ethical subject is not merely a question of awareness or consciousness; denotes a 'constitution of themselves as "moral subject", in which the individual delimits that part of himself that is the subject of this moral practice. " The self is defined and decide the matter of his making, but the definition that I run takes place through rules, arguably, are already operating. Thus, we think that this aesthetic mode of making is contextualized within an ethical practice, but Foucault remember that this ethical can only take place within a broader political context, the policy of the rules. Makes clear that there is self-forming outside of a mode of subjectivity, which means that no self-forming outside of the rules that orchestrate the possible formation of the subject. [41]

We have moved quietly from the discursive notion subject to a notion of "self" more psychologically resonant, and may be that for Foucault the latter term was more carries as the first agency. The self forms itself, but it forms itself into a series of formative practices that characterized como modos de subjetivación. Que la paleta de sus formas posibles esté delimitada de antemano por dichos modos de subjetivación no significa que el yo no consiga formarse a sí mismo, que el yo esté totalmente formado. Al contrario, se le obliga a formarse, pero formarse a sí mismo en formas que ya están más o menos operando y en proceso. O, podría decirse, se le obliga a formarse dentro de prácticas que ya están más o menos funcionando. Pero si esa formación de sí se hace en desobediencia a los principios de acuerdo con los cuales una se forma, entonces la virtud se convierte en la práctica por la cual el yo se forma a sí mismo en desujeción, lo que quiere decir que arriesga su deformación as a person occupying that position ontologically insecure again posed the question: who will be a subject here, and what will count as a life, a moment of ethical questioning which requires that we break the habits of opinion in favor of a riskier practice that seeks to artistry coercion.


This essay was originally delivered in shorter form, as Raymond Williams Lecture at Cambridge University in May 2000. Then published in longer form in David Ingram (ed.), The Political: Readings in Continental Philosophy, Basil Blackwell, London, 2002. I am grateful to William Connolly and Wendy Brown for helpful comments from earlier drafts.

[1] Raymond Williams, Keywords. A vocabulary of culture and society, trans. by Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires, Nueva Visión, 2000, pp. 85-87.

[2] Ibid, p. 87.

[3] Theodor W. Adorno, "The criticism of culture and society", trad. by Manuel Sacristán, in Prisms. The critique of culture and society, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bAriel, 1962, p. 23.

[4] Ibid, p. 15.

[5] Ibid, p. 14.

[6] Michel Foucault, "What is Critique? (Criticism and Enlightenment) ", trans. Javier de la Higuera, in On the Enlightenment, Madrid, Tecnos, 2006, pp. 3-52. This essay was originally a lecture at the Société Française de Philosophie on 27 May 1978, subsequently published in the Bulletin de la Société française de Philosophie, year 84 °, no. 2, April-June 1990, pp.

35-63 [7] For an interesting account of this transition from critical theory of communicative action to consult the book of Seyla Benhabib, Critique, norm and utopia, Buenos Aires, Amorrortu, 2005.

[8] Michel Foucault, "What is Critique?", Op. cit., pp. 4 and 5.

[9] Theodor W. Adorno, "Critique of Culture and society ", op. cit., p. 23.

[10] Michel Foucault, "What is Critique?", Op. cit., p. 5.

[11] Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. 2. The Use of Pleasure, trans. by Marti Soler, Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2003.

[12] Ibid, p. 12.

[13] Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. 1. The will to knowledge, Madrid, Siglo XXI, 2005.

[14] Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. 2. The Use of Pleasure, op. cit., p. 13.

[15] Ibid, pp. 13-14.

[16] Ibid, p. 25.

[17] Michel Foucault, "What is Critique?" op. cit., pp. 7-8.

[18] Ibid, p. 8.

[19] Ibid, p. 8.

[20] Ibid, p. 9.

[21] Ibid, p. 9.

[22] Ibid, p. 9.

[23] Ibid, p. 10.

[24] Ibid, pp. 10-11. The emphasis is mine.

[25] Ibid, p. 11.

[26] Ibid, p. 22.

[27] Ibid, p. 16.

[28] Ibid, p. 17.

[29] Ibid, p. 20.

[30] Ibid, p. 25.

[31] Ibid, pp. 27-28.

[32] Ibid, p. 28.

[33] Ibid, pp. 32-33.

[34] Ibid, p. 21.

[35] This refers to a question from the audience, which is made in the discussion following the lecture that causes the text "What is Critique?, See supra note 6. [N. T.]

[36] Ibid, pp. 44-45.

[37] Ibid, p. 45.

[38] Ibid, p. 45.

[39] Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power ', trans. by Roger G. Walls, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (eds.), Michel Foucault: beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 245.

[40] Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality. 2. The Use of Pleasure, op. cit., pp. 14-15.

[41] Ibid, p. 29.
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