Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismHeadfuckFoucault: "The problem is not changing people's consciousness--or what's in their heads--but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth." [1] That's why he wrote Discipline and Punish--to get truth to work differently. It's why we should reinvent Romanticism. To the extent that it continues to reinforce the production of imperial identities, the circulation of racist cultures, it requires transformation. [2] Shifting away from organicism and toward technology would be a start. We are what we do, not what we think or say. Notes1. Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977ed. Colin Gordon, trans. Colin Gordon et. al. (New York: Pantheon, 1980), 133. 2. It's not enough to expand the canon if canonization produces the true. The very procedures of that production must change. Navigation |