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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Foucault’s work does contain an irrealist impulse…

26-Feb-08

Foucault’s work does contain an irrealist impulse, which is to stake his all on the transitive domain of knowledge, and to define reality according to the power of discourses or the Nietzschean struggles of power-knowledge. There is a tendency in Foucault to reduce truth-claims to rhetoricalnarrative strategies (Norris 1992: 85). Yet the power-knowledge relation is [...]

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Critical realism

26-Feb-08

On a spectrum that runs from realism to postmodernism Foucault stands somewhere in the middle. Critical realism is driven by the need to offer some explanatory power for how we understand the world around us, while remaining aware of the limitations of such an exercise. Ontologically bold in recognising the need to offer an explanation, [...]

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Public Art as Publicity

20-Feb-08

Miwon Kwon 01/2002 Public Art as Publicity The title of the symposium, for which this text was written, “In the Place of the Public Sphere,” signals a double reading. In particular, the use of the word “place,” or rather the place of the word “place,” in the title asserts two different conceptions of the public [...]

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