FACS 1900 Lecture Notes - Radiant City, Public Space, Industrial Revolution

• School: York University
• Department: Fine Arts Cultural Studies
• Course: FACS 1900
• Professor: Robert Gill

Document Summary

Room: acw 206 for lecture, ace 006 for tutorial. Time: friday 11:30 to 1:30 pm for lecture, 2:30 to 3:30 for tutorial. Discourse mediates what is known and knowable about human bodies and their capacities. Knowledge is an organizer of these bodies and capacities. We all feel confined as to what we can do in this body. We also discover that there is a creative potential in our bodies we didn"t know existed when we go to art school. The kinds of constraints we place socially on the body and what the body can do. Foucault talks about the so called truth, which also includes falsehood, we thought the sun revolved around the earth at some point in history, that was our truth. We have to be very careful what we think is true and what we think is false.