Dream and the aesthetics of existence: Revisiting “Foucault’s ethical imagination”

2021 ◽  
pp. 019145372110426
Author(s):  
Edward McGushin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Governmental Management

For the later Foucault, as for the early Foucault, the dream represents a privileged disclosure of the ethics of the self, and the relation to truth. What, then, is the function of the dream in the ethics of the self? This article brings together Foucault’s early work on the dream and his late work on the care of the self to answer this question. Foucault’s archeologies and genealogies of power and discourse show how the modern disciplinary, bio-political, neo-liberal individual is constituted simultaneously as self-sovereign and as subject to governmental management. The dream awakens when the self-sovereign subject of modern power goes to sleep. The dream, then, problematizes and displaces the sovereign subject and opens the door to disruptive forms of experience, counter to modern power’s demand that we be always awake, productive, and in control of our thoughts and feelings.

Love Messaging

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Manghani
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Technologies Of The Self

The article examines the nature of mobile phone text messaging, or `txting', in the context of a discourse of love. It draws links between the txt message and the much older, revered form of love messaging, Japanese tanka poetry. In cutting across both a historical and technological divide, it seeks to elucidate a more subtle understanding of how text messaging — from a literary perspective — plays its part in amorous exchange and argues how it has the capacity to enable individuals to affirm their own private thoughts, feelings and anxieties. Taking a cue from Michel Foucault's late work, concerned with the philosophical precept of `care of the self', the article argues that these differing forms of exchange — as `tender' technologies of the self and inter-subjectivity — go beyond any one medium or age of media. Aspects of our relationships are worked out in the silent confines of being alone with text and, in the case today, with text messaging, making for the potential of a new poetics of time and space. While we cannot free ourselves from the lover's code or discourse, there is the potential for an affirmation of our part in its production, which prompts a question about how we might go on to research the currently missing archive of text messaging.

Gur Zak, Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self

Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The West ◽  
City Life ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Point Of Departure

What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and history, and their essays make comparative examinations of the practices of citizenship from the ancient world to the present day in both the East and the West. The papers’ comparative approaches, between East and West, and ancient and modern, leads to a greater understanding of the challenges facing citizens in the urbanized twenty-first century, and by looking at past examples, suggests ways of addressing them. While the book’s point of departure is philosophical, its key aim is to examine how philosophy can be applied to everyday life for the betterment of citizens in cities not just in Asia and the West but everywhere.

Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Davidson
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
Experimental Attitude ◽  
Moral Perfectionism

Abstract: Beginning with Pierre Hadot’s idea of spiritual exercises and Stanley Cavell’s conception of moral perfectionism, this essay argues that improvisation can be understood as a practice of spiritual self-transformation. Focusing on the example of Sonny Rollins, the essay investigates the ways in which Rollins’ improvisations embody a series of philosophical concepts and practices: the care of the self, the Stoic exercise of cosmic consciousness, the problem of moral exemplarity, the ideas, found in the later Foucault, of a limit attitude and an experimental attitude, and so on. The underlying claim of the essay is that improvisation is not only an aesthetic exercise, but also a social and ethical practice that can give rise to existential transformations.

scholarly journals Identidade(s) feminina(s) e cuidado de si na revista ag/female identity(ies) and care of the self in the supplement revista ag

2012 ◽  
Vol 0 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayonara Carla Pinto ◽  
Ivan Marcelo Gomes ◽  
Cláudia Emília Moraes ◽  
Ludmila Santos Almeida ◽  
Felipe Quintão de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Female Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self
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