Experience

I don’t think its entirely accurate to say that Foucault is “anti-experience”. Sure, he was pretty dismissive of the phenomenological approach to experience,  which is based on his rejection of the centrality of the perceptive subject. But at the same time, he makes frequent use of a concept of experience throughout all of his work. [...]

Anna asked me to post some references about translation, multiplicity and heterogeneity. I guess I had mostly in mind the piece called ‘Addressing the Multitude of Foreigners, Echoing Foucault’ by Naoki Sakai and Jon Solomon in this issue of Traces. There’s also, of course, Sakai’s book Translation and Subjectivity, where he develops the notion of ‘heterolingual [...]

Just on our discussion about ‘what is a present moment’? according to Stern…I recall one of the threads we were trying to sort through was: why have a present moment? and is this not a fairly sequential and/or normative conception of time? I just wanted to mention that in another article I have read written [...]

Or in fact are we experiencing anything? Too much? How do we know? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean for life – political and otherwise, if those are indeed different in the end. So far we’ve discovered that everyone (including Stern and Guattari) has a different take on all these [...]