tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post3626730531949255803..comments2024-03-28T20:01:14.354+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Creating Things in Order to be FreeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-17400562225026871352017-02-28T06:14:00.048+08:002017-02-28T06:14:00.048+08:00Am I being free when I will myself to do work that...Am I being free when I will myself to do work that I do only for survival? Is it an exercise in freedom or in slavery to go against a system in which you need to do things you don't want to spend your life doing just to be allowed to live in comfort? Is comfort society's carrot to keep us enslaved?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-44141446285724873582017-02-27T07:07:11.987+08:002017-02-27T07:07:11.987+08:00Yes, personal discipline is a means to freedom. St...Yes, personal discipline is a means to freedom. St. Augustine, who is far more insightful than Foucault, says something to this effect in his 'City of God': <br /><br />"Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices..."spigothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731224119469018601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-55540293604341035312017-02-26T20:38:48.943+08:002017-02-26T20:38:48.943+08:00The French satiric newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné ha...The French satiric newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné has this motto : "Freedom of the press only wears out if you are not using it".<br />These words ring as true now as they did in the early XXth centuryJean-François Lebretonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07310676119910035535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-17330831213983000672017-02-26T06:41:53.474+08:002017-02-26T06:41:53.474+08:00Ignoring Foucault, what does the concept of *freed...Ignoring Foucault, what does the concept of *freedom* have to do with either the habits you listed (social media etc) or being artistically creative ?Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-86105200788729474202017-02-26T04:00:53.845+08:002017-02-26T04:00:53.845+08:00Even a bad cook or a bad painter can be purposeful...Even a bad cook or a bad painter can be purposeful.David Oakesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-80681670517093152092017-02-26T02:51:44.609+08:002017-02-26T02:51:44.609+08:00I agree; creating involves agency in a way that co...I agree; creating involves agency in a way that consuming -- e.g. watching telly -- doesn't (I think this was Albert Borgman). Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10910170906278532034noreply@blogger.com