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George Bush, Jon Stewart and Michel Foucault: Laughter as Political Problematization
Unformatted Document Text:  29 1 “Polemics, Politics and Problematizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault,” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997), 114. 2 Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (New York: Micra, 1998). 3 And, hopefully, answer it in a definite way pleasing to one’s peers. In fact, that’s exactly what I’m attempting to do here… 4 The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality Volume 2, (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 10. 5 Ibid., 11. 6 Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 31. 7 Polemics, Politics and Problematizations, 117. 8 Ibid., 117. 9 Ibid., 117. 10 “The Masked Philosopher,” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997), 325. 11 “The Subject and Power,” in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. 2nd ed. Hubert L. Dryfus and Paul Rabinow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 21. Graham Burchell says it this way: This notion [problematization] refers to the historically conditioned emergence of new fields of experience…. But this notion also designates the activity of the historian of the present. The historian of the present reproblematizes, that is to say engages in an activity that dismantles the co-ordinates of his or her starting point and indicates the possibility of a different experience, of a change in his or her way of being a subject or in his or her relation to self – and so also, of a change of others’ selves. This experience dictates that each particular work is an experiment in which one risks oneself in the sense that one emerges from it transformed not only in what and how one thinks, but thereby in how one is or might possibly be (from “Liberal Government and the Techniques of the Self” in Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism and Rationalities of Government, ed. by Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 32. 12 “What is Enlightenment?” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997), 303-19.

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1
“Polemics, Politics and Problematizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault,” in Ethics:
Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997), 114.
2
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (New York: Micra, 1998).
3
And, hopefully, answer it in a definite way pleasing to one’s peers. In fact, that’s exactly what
I’m attempting to do here…
4
The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality Volume 2, (New York: Vintage Books, 1990),
10.
5
Ibid., 11.
6
Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 31.
7
Polemics, Politics and Problematizations, 117.
8
Ibid., 117.
9
Ibid., 117.
10
“The Masked Philosopher,” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New
York: The New Press, 1997), 325.
11
“The Subject and Power,” in Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. 2nd
ed. Hubert L. Dryfus and Paul Rabinow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 21.
Graham Burchell says it this way:
This notion [problematization] refers to the historically conditioned emergence of
new fields of experience…. But this notion also designates the activity of the
historian of the present. The historian of the present reproblematizes, that is to
say engages in an activity that dismantles the co-ordinates of his or her starting
point and indicates the possibility of a different experience, of a change in his or
her way of being a subject or in his or her relation to self – and so also, of a
change of others’ selves. This experience dictates that each particular work is an
experiment in which one risks oneself in the sense that one emerges from it
transformed not only in what and how one thinks, but thereby in how one is or
might possibly be (from “Liberal Government and the Techniques of the Self” in
Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism and Rationalities of
Government
, ed. by Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 32.
12
“What is Enlightenment?” in Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. by Paul Rabinow (New
York: The New Press, 1997), 303-19.


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