Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism

Michold Bloucault

Can we have it both ways? A Romanticism of imagination and discipline, consciousness and power? I wanted to find out, so I cut Foucault into Bloom, with the following results: "Subjectivity or self-consciousness is Romanticism, at least for to station themselves in depending on how relevant the dialectic of consciousness The body, required its minutest operations, opposes of functioning proper to power has as its is not only analytical natural and 'organic.' the salient problem of modern readers, who tend regard to the Romantics or adequate they judge and imagination to be. to be docile in and shows the conditions an organism. Disciplinary correlative and individuality that and 'cellular,' but also . . ." [1]   Hm. Maybe we'll have to choose.

Notes

1. Passages come from Harold Bloom, "Nature and Consciousness," Romanticism and Consciousness, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Norton, 1970), 1; Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1979), 156. The mix occurred here: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/burroughs/cutup_machine.htm. (This link opens a new window.)

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