Word: foucault
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, don't imagine Koehne's piece to be of the modernist or neo-modernist aesthetic just because it is considered contemporary; don't think "Michel Foucault does orchestral music." Rather, the composer opts for the "Reconstructionist" aesthetic--the program notes state, "Koehne has moved towards an affirmation of traditional values and a vital opposition to what he sees as the sham iconoclasm of the avantgardist attitude." In particular, Elevator Music was inspired by the integration of jazz and popular music into orchestral music. But the piece sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece...
...sick of Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Foucault and, especially, Habermas...
...convinced my phone interviewer that social studies is the study of how Weber, Foucault and Habermas have contributed to theories of market share and advertising. I talked about the relationship of the Budweiser frog to the bourgeois public sphere. I said that Coke is a well-marketed product...
When I say "paranoid scenario," I have certainly participated and even formented various ways of attacking what Michel Foucault called the unities of an epistemological field that work in terms of a set of unified objects. I believe that some of those unified objects dissolve as you begin to look at them. So it's not as though I'm resisting new departures in art historical method, but I suppose I feel very strongly that that kind of critique is powerful and productive when it's conducted within a discipline, when a discipline renews itself. So what I have against...
This confusion turns to ridicule ("the haute bourgeoisie, right out of Foucault"), then to panic--after they turned down your Rhodes application, you've had visions of moving back with your parents, mowing the lawn, reading your thesis in a rocking chair at an old-age home. You have flashbacks to Freshman Week, when everyone else knew exactly what they were doing, and you know that yet again, you are clearly missing something...