Schema, Gaze and Examination: “The Means of Correct Training”
“Hierarchized, continuous, and functional surveillance may not be one of the great technical ‘inventions’ of the eighteenth century, but its insidious extension owed its importance...
Female (self) authorship, Jane Eyre and Foucault
Foucault begins the essay “What Is an Author?” by stating that “author,” a “notion” whose very “coming into being” constitutes the “privileged moment of individualization...
(Academic) self-care
In the spirit of academic self-care, this week my reading response will consist in a reflection on the qualifying examination preparation process we have been...
Dejection: A Mode
The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing—draw emotions from me, a woman two centuries their junior...
How-to self-care at court: 1540-1619 Edition
The Discourse, practical instructions one might find in a self-care listicle on the Internet today (“6 easy steps to succeed at court!”), is flanked by...