ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Neurosis, Queer Theory, Involuntary Memory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Arts & Science
• Course: ARTSSCI 1A06
• Professor: Peter Travis Kroeker

Document Summary

Was a well known activist of things such as gay rights, etc. It would provide axioms of knowledge for queer theory. Foucault suggested that liberation and sexuality were an odd pairing. He wondered if it was biological, culturally-imposed, or what. "the regimes of power, knowledge, and power that sustain discourses on human sexuality remain as entrenched in our world as they ever have been" In french, histoire was a wider range of meaning than just telling the truth of the past based on science/facts. French subtitle was "the will to know" not "introduction" as in the english version of the book. These desire-related forms of knowledge are also related to personal, cultural, social investments in wanting to know the world and how it is. "always pay special attention to what goes without saying"; out conventional assumptions that see and hear selectively. "longtemps": famous word connected to a famous french philosophy book. What the first sentence in proust begins with.