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Trans. Ineke van der Burg. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Parresia, Original text Discourse and truth: The problematization of parresia, transcript of 6 lectures by Foucault at Berkeley, University of California in 1983.
Michel Foucaultdescription, methodology, specific
In 1983 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the University of Berkeley in which he addressed the old Greek idea of Parresia for ...
The lecture series was part of a larger programme, Discourse and Truth. Because Foucault died in 1984, he was not able to edit the text ...
For such political spaces to work they have to give people an experience, as was my conviction in 1989. Having studied social sciences ...
description, methodology, subjective, key-informants, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
Using the text as the laboratory one does need to find cues for validity though. While writing I have focused on creating inner validity ...
description, methodology, key-informants, conclusion, parresia, techno-biography, text laboratory
It has been suggested by Latour that the use of exquisite language will trigger a more eloquent use of the text laboratory as a ...
description, argument, parresia
For survival, the blurring between real and unreal situations is problematic at first sight. When one needs to act for survival one has ...
description, methodology, personal history, key-informants, theory
In Science and Technology Studies (STS) actors are taken extremely seriously and are often the centre of attention in a study. But in ...