The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Foucault, Michel

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“…By the time Michel Foucault published his ground-breaking critique of Humanism in The Order of Things (1970), the question of what, if anything, was the idea of 'the human' was circulating in the radical discourses of the time and had been at the centre of many agendas of different political groups for over a decade. The 'death of Man', announced by Foucault (1970), formalises an epistemological and moral crisis that goes beyond binary oppositions and cuts across the different poles of the political spectrum. What is targeted is the implicit Humanism of Marxism -more specifically, the humanistic arrogance of continuing to place Man at the centre of world history.…”

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Posthuman Humanities

Braidotti

2013

European Educational Research Journal

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This article compares notes on different and new concepts of 'the Human', developed both within disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic scientific research and in broader social practices. The main focus is on the shifting relationship between the 'two cultures' of the humanities and science in the light of contemporary developments, such as the sophisticated forms of interdisciplinary research that have emerged in the fields of biotechnologies, neural sciences, environmental and climate change research and Information and Communication technologies. These rapid changes affect the very definitions of the human and of human evolution. This article attempts to assess the constructions of the human at work in contemporary Humanities scholarship, which I also describe as the posthuman condition. I will start on a critical note by outlining the dislocations of the discursive boundaries and categorical differences within the Humanities, which have been triggered respectively by the explosion of humanism and the implosion of anthropocentrism. I will argue that these epistemological breaks cause an internal fracture within the Humanities that cannot be mended just by good will. I will then go on in a more affirmative note to defend the argument that the Humanities can and will survive their present crises and even prosper, to the extent that they will show the ability and willingness to undergo a major process of transformation in the direction of the posthuman.I shall devote some time to outlining the posthuman predicament and propose a posthuman affirmative ethics. To be worthy of our times, we need to be pragmatic: we need schemes of thought and figurations that enable us to account in empowering terms for the changes and transformations currently on the way. We already live in permanent states of transition, hybridisation and nomadic mobility, in emancipated, post-feminist, multi-ethnic societies with high degrees of technological mediation which, however, have not ensured justice for all, or resolved enduring patterns of inequality. These are neither simple nor linear events, but rather are multilayered and internally contradictory social phenomena. They combine elements of ultra-modernity with splinters of neo-archaism: high-tech advances and neo-primitivism, which defy the logic of excluded middle. We therefore need great methodological creativity to cope with these challenges.Let me explore in order the different steps of this argument. Posthumanism

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“…They are the most common source of information for the tourist, and in fact often precede and guide them in their search and selection of experiences. The institutional presentation of knowledge via tourist texts such as travel guides -which may or may not be compiled in collaboration with locals, insiders and even tourists -may therefore constitute an authority (Foucault, 1966(Foucault, /1970), which in turn is able to construct a reality for the tourist that becomes more 'real' than the place itself (Said, 1979: 93). In addition, travel guides often use texts -both visual and linguistic -that are borrowed from other travel guides creating a sort of a collage of narrative that is mirrored throughout the travel literature (Hutnyk, 1996).…”

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Seattle's Pike Place Market (De)constructed: An Analysis of Tourist Narratives about a Public Space

Aiello

Gendelman

2008

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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This paper is a critical analysis of the narrative construction of Seattle's well-known and heavily touristed Pike Place Market. The analysed data come from both institutional and amateur sources, including travel guides and photographs taken by tourists at the market. Tourist literature provides narrative themes in the form of literary descriptions and photographic images, that emphasise and reveal only certain textual dimensions of a place. Tourists' experiences and accounts are inevitably informed by such themes. In addition, studying tourist photography is an excellent way to understand how people actively use and resist modes of representation that are derived from institutional sources. Tourists are usually remarkably proli c photographers, while also being exposed to a great number and variety of institutional narratives of the sites they visit. Public space is not merely a geographical con guration, but also a verbal and visual narrative construction by means of technologies such as writing and photography. The construction of a narrative via the means of technology can be political both in the way that it is produced and in the way it is consumed. The authors examine the dynamic power relationship that exists between institutional and amateur texts about popular public spaces, such as a city's public market.

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“…Such decisions directly influence what can be said with 'authority' from an archive and thus what histories can be articulated. As Derrida argues, and also suggested by Foucault (1972), the construction of the archive gives power and credence to what has happened and potentially how it will be interpreted in the future.…”

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The Geographies of Community History Digital Archives in Rural Scotland

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Wallace

Webster

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Scottish Geographical Journal

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The CURIOS (Cultural Repositories and Information Systems) project has been working with community heritage groups to co-produce sustainable solutions for the production of heritage archives in digital form. This process has produced an opportunity for fascinating geographical research into the ways in which community heritage groups produce history from their own perspective. This paper will therefore begin to open up these ongoing processes to consider, through case study examples, the ways in which the production of digital archives alters the geography of community heritage production. A number of community heritage groups have been converting their 'analogue' collections into 'digital' forms and the paper will argue how this significantly alters the positionality of the archive. This will be shown by detailing the ways in which the processes of collection and preservation, conducted by community volunteers, take place. The paper will then move to consider the ways in which this historical material, representative of place, is presented back to a wider audience. In doing this, it will discuss the rationales and processes involved in these practices and how this relates to broader themes of research within geography. Whether for historical research or for theoretical positioning, geographers have, on a number of levels, engaged with archives. Yet, the digital archive has seen little attention especially in terms of thinking through the ways in which digital mediums alter perceptions of space and place.

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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

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