A Trojan Horse from civil society on June 25, 2011“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does” — Michel Foucault (Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason). Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon as an efficient prison wherein a few jailors would […]
Horses and horse sense on June 12, 2011“…That our reason is the difference of discourses, our history the difference of time, our selves the difference of masks” — Michel Foucault on archaeological analysis of history. The unconscious and conscious scripts that run our lives come embedded in intricate ways in everyday reality. The discourse that sustains our worldview is not in any […]