Within the context of the care for the self, Foucault provides a genealogical trace to the ancient philosophy. Taking care of the self was associated with knowing oneself, which is ethical in itself, not only for caring for others but also for oneself. According to Foucault, this ethical understanding of the care for the self has complex relations among people that imply an act of governing. Hence, Foucault states that “a city in which everybody took proper care of [themselve

Describing the scope of political discussions is essential in political theory to develop a starting point, make assumptions, identify causations, make deductions, decide on methodology, and the like. This also leads to a division between subject and object of the political study and to decide who is the subject and object in terms of power relations, institutional applications, social and cultural impacts, and so on. Hence, it is hard to identify strict and crystal-clear def

The meaning of politics changes over time by the socio-cultural, economic, and historical conditions of the societies. It is possible to provide various definitions of politics from ancient times to the contemporary era. From the classical perspective, in the fourth century, Athens termed ‘‘political philosophy,’’ that became a term of equal status (and imprecision) with ‘‘political thought’’ and ‘‘theory” (Pocock, 2008, p. 164). It enabled a historical grand narrative to eme

I always liked traveling or more so I liked leaving, going away to the unknown. Still there is that longing, longing for the faraway, the freedom. At the same time I feel my roots are pulling. The things you know and that are part of you. The soil you are from: home. But maybe those seemingly opposites belong together. You can’t have freedom without boundaries. No reality without imagination. Longing is nice and there are endless possibilities in my head. Carla Vermeltfoort .

My photographs are similar to street photography in that they capture a moment of real life, without artifice or pose. However, they distance themselves from it by their refined graphic composition as well as by the existential questioning they suppose: What is the place of the human being in this world without nuances and without sweetness? How does life cope with this hardness? How can movement be born in this geometric immobility? Who are you, you little human seeking to c

Kylie Ruszczynski photographs herself. She performs for the camera, both revealing and concealing herself for us, the beholders of her work. In these works her figure appears for us from the depths of dark, often deep black tones. The figure is layered in ambiguous spaces between the mottled grey grid of the small tiles of a shower stall in the background, and the shadow of inguinal ultrasound scans that cover and lie over the surface of the figure. The ultrasound scans are o

I was moving one day. Something happened and I stopped. I felt paralyzed. I was alone. I wanted to keep still, I didn´t want to move any more. I don´t know for how long I was like this, but I remember looking around at some point. I saw a light and I felt its warmth. I heard the wind and I felt its sweetness all over my skin. I can´t explain what happened, but finally I understood. I was never still. Movement was always in me. Teresa Muinelo Paz https://www.instagram.com/ter

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What real is, what reality is and what the shape of them are important notions to understand how they are represented in visuality.

Contrazione Sensible (sensible contraction) that is a study about objects. In my opinion, art of photography has the power to vitalize inanimate objects. In this sense, the representation of human bodies in photos is the perfect example of vitality in objects, that cannot communicate. Bodies are sensible objects and they need to share the beauty of themselves, that is an inextricable part of bodies and obviously a part of the owner of the body, with us. I wanted to describe h

Oceani in gocce (oceans in drops) is a series of portraits made to express the feeling of sadness in a visible way. The most significant pictures of this series are the ones with a glass full of little drops of water in front of the girl. The face of the girl is obscured by the water: this means that sadness exists and can change, hides and makes disappear. The one that is feeling this emotion and at the same time, the drops of water (that represent tears) can isolate the su

1 Even the most studiously factual account of the past survives nothing but the future it could not predict.[1] Were this survival to give the present moment more than a nod of obedient self-justification, it might risk revealing the significance of the loss that inspires every desire to remember. This loss that animates memory and history evokes not merely a by-gone yet mentally retrievable element from the depository of time. It indicates quite on the contrary a structural

Crossing the traditions of collage film and film essay, Camp presents unexpected convergences between the figure of the concentration camp and campy aesthetics.  Camp  assembles a framework out of documentary material used in the Nuremberg Trials and choice excerpts from Busby Berkeley’s campy masterpiece,  The Gang’s All Here , both produced at the same historical moment. Beneath the visual track, two narrators, one in Arabic and the other in Mandarin, reflect on the politi

When we are in a flow, we don’t realize reality, which has a suspicious body, that is created by the reification of the imaginary. “Reification” is the key notion to make the system approvable because people need to believe in terms when they are sensible and even embodied. In this conjuncture, photography, in fact, is a social ritual, a defence screen against concerns and a means of exhibiting power. (1) In my “Jouissance” Project, I illustrated the form of resistance in a w

"-I saw how things work here, now I want to go. -You haven't seen everything yet. -I don't want to see everything, I want to go, how do I get to the exit? -You have lost your way already?" “Be with the world in your struggle with the world”.In this aphorism of Kafka, there is no doubt that the characters that Kafka created in his works draw attention with his missing, powerless and desperate aspects in such a struggle. It is not surprising to see such characters in Kafka's wo

”… Even though it is directed towards wild animals, the desire for a bloodshed results from the tendency of the soul to savagery, even if it is not, the wild taste of such wild tastes eventually becomes wild.“ The book begins with his criticism of the period in England, and in fact, More constructs a world design which is not possible in the second part, but from which people want to live. In fact, the value of utopia and utopian tradition, as in More, is the relationship of

“A person who does not represent an intelligence based on a talent, a non-creativity, a comprehensive, multifaceted understanding will not be able to learn so much art and science Yet, we are well aware that someone who is limited to realizing his or her skill with the books is ignorant, uneducated and bulky.” As in other utopias, Campanella's Sun Country has taken its ground from the social environment of its author who lived in and emerged as a product of the critical appro

The answer to this question is surely in the paintings’ immediacy. When one stands in front of a Caravaggio painting one is taken aback by the sheer power of the painting. What gives these paintings their immense power? First we should consider what power is. More specifically the theory of power put forth by Michel Foucault. Foucault does not acknowledge power as being situated in any one place or possessed by any particular person or sovereign locality. Power is in the space

Krzysztof Kieslowski entrusted to my favorite filmmakers from the first film I watched, Trois couleurs-Three Colors trilogy. A study of French flag from a Polish director: freedom, equality, brotherhood. Maybe this is the reason, that we feel the same feeling in every Kieslowski movie ... He is one of the unique directors who created the feeling of his own film with a sensitive and responsive expression but also an expression with hamrful reality. The first film of Kieslowsk

In the middle of the project lesson on Thursday, when I suddenly caught, everyone in my life in love mode and I said I could continue writing. You'll see everyone goes through the same stages. I can not understand the opposite side of which I am not at the stage, but in these cases, the "Bang Bang", as Dalida sang, starts mumbling in my head. Why? Seeing that it's my favorite Dolan film, Les Amours Imaginaires, that Xavier Dolan tells us for all of us. In order to fall in lov