ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture 25: Foucault, History of Sexuality (III)
14 Aug 2020
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Power in the sense of the power to generate. Dna code is a chemical code to be deciphered, which would unlock the secrets of nature. Bacon already believed this, saying that the new sciences are far better than the old ones; that ancient wisdom can talk, but not generate. Like prepubescent boys; metaphor to do with sexual generation. The only thing it cannot prevent is death, as in antigone. Scientific experiments are trials, much like in courts of law. A famous quote: "we will put her to the rack and compel her to answer our questions" Foucault makes connections about practices of knowledge that are very real. Extracting information that is in our interests, because we are convinced that this will make a better world and give us better lives. Hysteria, connected to sexuality and described in a footnote in foucault. Foucault interested in the genealogy and the sovereign.
