Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault

The domestication of Foucault

Though Foucault was intrigued by the possibilities of radical social transformation, he resolutely resisted the idea that such transformation could escape the effects of power and expressed caution when it came to the question of revolution. In this article we argue that in one particularly influential line of development of Foucault’s work his exemplary caution has been exaggerated in a way th...

the spiritualization of power:scheler and foucault

Handwritten Gregg Shorthand Recognition

Gregg shorthand is a form of stenography that was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888. Like cursive longhand, it is completely based on elliptical figures and lines that bisect them. Gregg shorthand is the most popular form of pen stenography in the United States and its Spanish adaptation is fairly popular in Latin America. With the invention of dictation machines, shorthand machines, and th...

QnAs with Gregg Semenza.

In organisms that depend on oxygen, the element helps generate ATP, the cellular energy currency, and sustain cellular functions. But researchers have struggled to understand how organisms cope with shifts in oxygen availability. National Academy of Sciences member Gregg Semenza, a biochemist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, studies how cells sense and react to different oxyg...

Foucault Studies

REVIEW ESSAY Michel Foucault, History of Madness, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (London/New York: Routledge, 2006) ISBN: 0415277019. Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian University Réal Fillion, University of Sudbury Introduction Since its presentation on May 20, 1961, Foucault’s principal doctoral thesis has never ceased both to fascinate and to fuel controversy.1 Blanchot, Barthes, ...