if Foucault were introduced to HighSchoolers
interesting...based on my question of how/when people got introed to Foucault it seems all of us were exposed to him undergrad or grad.
as many of you might feel, his theories are sort of a revelation once u can digest them.
my question is, what would happen if kids were exposed to his stuff at a younger age? would it cause a riot amongst all "screenagers" knowing how oppressed they have been? would it result in an overthrow of the education system as we know it? would they stand up and sing some bad Pink Floyd song?
i almost feel there's a conspiracy that his theories aren't read until college...lolz.
oh, quick side note: i helped my younger cousin write his college application essay last year. he applied to an ivy league school and had above average GPA & SAT but nothing mindblowing..anyways, the point is, i spit out ideas about Foucault, panopticon and how TV/Media/Internet have functioned as modern day "prisons" (something we discussed in a previous tribe posting) as well as this link here: www.surveillance-and-society.org/j......htm
in the end, the dude gets into 2 ivy's liberal arts studies and i'm guessing that damn essay might have somewhat of a difference.
which made me wonder today's subject line...
interesting...based on my question of how/when people got introed to Foucault it seems all of us were exposed to him undergrad or grad.
as many of you might feel, his theories are sort of a revelation once u can digest them.
my question is, what would happen if kids were exposed to his stuff at a younger age? would it cause a riot amongst all "screenagers" knowing how oppressed they have been? would it result in an overthrow of the education system as we know it? would they stand up and sing some bad Pink Floyd song?
i almost feel there's a conspiracy that his theories aren't read until college...lolz.
oh, quick side note: i helped my younger cousin write his college application essay last year. he applied to an ivy league school and had above average GPA & SAT but nothing mindblowing..anyways, the point is, i spit out ideas about Foucault, panopticon and how TV/Media/Internet have functioned as modern day "prisons" (something we discussed in a previous tribe posting) as well as this link here: www.surveillance-and-society.org/j......htm
in the end, the dude gets into 2 ivy's liberal arts studies and i'm guessing that damn essay might have somewhat of a difference.
which made me wonder today's subject line...
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Re: Foucault & high schoolers
Sat, November 6, 2004 - 11:20 AMAs I said before, I stumbled on Foucault's writings when I was a high school student, obviously not through school.
As far as I remember, after the shock of the discovery, I was mostly frustrated that I could do next to nothing to free myself from the prison-school. I started idealizing the University as a place that was freer from discipline — which I still do, after 7 years of higher studies and probably for 5 years more.
I was a shy geek, not a revolutionary: "after Foucault" (and Nietzsche, and Deleuze, for that matter), all I was able to do was grinding my aware teeth in silence. -
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Re: Foucault & high schoolers
Sat, November 6, 2004 - 4:49 PMhaha, you Marjorie are indeed the exception stumbling upon him so early.
and like you said, perhaps it might be the worse thing that can happen to a HS student to encounter his theories at such a vulnerable age. once you go through that realization of futility, there's not much you can do in HS other than feelin a bit nihilistic, which, all u need to do is listen to Nirvana songs.
we had philsophy class at 10th grade and read all the other big theorists like Nietzsche, Kant, Derrida(sp?), heck even Baudrillard.
i guess part of me now is 1) on a campaign to introduce Foucault to kids, 2) whether or not it's a good idea 3) speculate if it would have any real effect on screenagers/prisoners.
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Re: Foucault & high schoolers
Thu, November 11, 2004 - 1:23 PMi met foucault and he told me
i wasn't pronouncin his name right, and
the reason it was important was cause
the way I said it referred to a Painter
whose family made paint and put it in tubes.
Tubular.
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