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Michel Foucault o A thinker of crisis: when any reigning order is in trouble it wishes to re-establish itselfthough he is reluctant to identify who

is the agent of power he identifies o Original power that masks and conceals is now power as creative/productive force (unlike Bataille and in relation to the Dionysian) o He speaks to truth but not truth And believes in creative fictioning to open our eyes to the present reality He is best treated as an animator rather than an authority (he would agree) o Science is not an ideology (a reflection of a class) but something caught-up in relation to power Trying to separate sex/sexuality and the natural There is no norm to sexuality, it is a historical apparatus He is no anarchistic in the traditional sense, and he is not a romantic as for him there is no Natural Order of Things (a book) o Sciencia Scientifica: truth of sex o Ars Erotica: the telling of this truth passing from generation to generation Truth drawn from pleasure Master divulging/withholdinghe has skill in this o The Western tradition of confession Which allows us to have an iota of power For the Greeks sex allows one to enter (initiation) This authority punishes, forgives, consoles Sex is linked to education and initiation (violent, laughable) Think of frat boy comedies o Confession loses its exclusive position (religion) and is now between parents, teachers, psychiatrists It takes the form of a dossier (consultations) And is reconstructed (and we make a system of classification) There is always an intermediary making decisions/judgments o Now it is not ars sexuality but a medicalization A juggling between pathology and normality o Sex is a pleasure but also an ordered system of knowledge Sex is problematized and interrogated until it can be recuperated in this field of rationality

Ars erotica criticism Lumping of all those civilizations o Tantric sex link through Oshima + Bataille George Bataille is divergent from Foucault Loss of identity and self as the opposite of knowledge Scientific observation: Williams arguing pornography to figure out the mysteries of sex Problems of mediation by technological infrastructure o For master/student relationships Levi interview: relationship of confession and sexual science to power o And further conceptualization of power by Foucault Pinning women to their sex

Anti-sex movement as liberating? o A backlash o Herv Guibert: Tricks Foucault did the preface

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