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Judith Butler‘s ”What is Critique?”

Theory & Philosophy

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Foucault's Desubjectification of Subjectivity

Foucault suggests that the subjectivity being desubjectified is implying another kind of subjectivity, one that tries to vie for struggle for self-realization. Even in opposing power, we seem to reify it, or rectify it, and the same can be very well said of how Foucault is imagining subjectivity here. In the act of deordering, deregulating, we only end up putting up our own regulations, our own orderings,. which he comes to somewhat oppose within this operation of critique.

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