#France #1968 #FrenchTheory #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Revolution: "Bourgeois history has primarily retained from ’68 the spectacle of the student-led revolts in the heart of Paris: the barricades in the Latin Quarter, the occupation of the Sorbonne, the libertarian sloganeering, and so forth. A significant segment of the intelligentsia, particularly anarchist, Maoist, Trotskyist, libertarian socialist, and Marxian currents, wrote in support of these revolts and often joined them in the streets and the various occupations. Marxist-Leninist intellectuals generally questioned the strategic clarity of the unorganized petty-bourgeois and anticommunist politics of many of the more vocal students, which they criticized for being gauchistes and beholden to the illusory belief in a revolutionary situation.5 At the same time, many of these intellectuals also recognized the youth uprising as an important catalyst for a new phase of class struggle, and they stalwartly supported the mobilization of workers.

These different segments of the intelligentsia, as we shall see, were not those that rose to global prominence as major contributors to the phenomenon known as French theory.6 On the contrary, those marketed as the ’68 thinkers—Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Pierre Bourdieu, and others—were disconnected from and often dismissive of the historic workers’ mobilization. They were also hostile to, or at least highly skeptical of, the student movement. In both senses, they were anti-’68 thinkers, or at a minimum, theorists who were highly suspicious of the demonstrations. Their promotion by the global theory industry, which has marketed them as the radical theorists of ’68, has largely obliterated this historical fact."

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/06/01/the-myth-of-1968-thought-and-the-french-intelligentsia-historical-commodity-fetishism-and-ideological-rollback/

"The most important thing we learned from #Foucault is that the living (and therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics. There is no politics that is not a politics of bodies."
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Paul B. #Preciado #quotes #bioPower #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory

"Disciplinary #normalisation consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of disciplinary normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm.
In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in disciplinary normalisation, it is the norm.
That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the #normal and the #abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm."

Michel #Foucault in ’#Safety, Territory, Population’, a lecture given at the Collège de France on 25th January 1978; in French : http://www.guillaumenicaise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/foucault-le%C3%A7on-du-25-janvier-1978.pdf
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#quotes #mentalHealth #norms #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory

Michel #Foucault , ses cours audio en accès facile et gratuit :
https://freefoucault.eth.link/

Naissance de la biopolitique
Sécurité, territoire, population
Il faut défendre la société
Les anormaux
---> Le pouvoir psychiatrique <---
Le gouvernement des vivants
L'herméneutique du sujet

#antipsychiatrie #sanisme #coursgratuits #courspourtoustes #frenchtheory #postmodernisme