Task 2

Michel Foucault was an evolutionary thinker who’s thoughts can be seen to trace a large section of late 20^th Century philosophy. As such, he represents an approximation or map for the uncharted waters of consensual opinion as to the perception, understanding of, and reaction to, the potential of a causal reality with which we interact. The majority of his internal conflict expressed itself as to the disputed existence of an underpinning truth, and humanities pyrrhic desire to espouse revolutionary ideals and concepts only to tear them down – as if undeserving of a glimpse of godhood.

It is this desperate search for an underlying truth, almost the wail of an infant torn from the comfort of a mother’s breast, which describes the developments in thought during his life. As one system was created to deal with inadequacies of the current modus, its own weaknesses become apparent – engendering a new generation of revolutionaries with a fire and zeal. Ironically, the tools used to fatally wound a system of thought are those that it created itself, and these are then bastardised into creating the descriptions of the successor. The genealogy of thought is therefore formed by the accretion of a system of confining and defining tools, rules and assumptions – which instead of freeing the wings of thought serve only to imprison them in a cage of their own willing collusion.

Against this background the endemic of those rejecting such stratified and constraining thoughts can be seen not as a rejection of the cerebration of philosophy, but as it’s purist form of expression. Rather than demanding the reader accept, conform and internalise certain methods of thought in order to comprehend the rarefied purity of the debate, experimental practice creates a representation which invites the viewer to understand in their own way – to develop their own rules. By using philosophy as a formative starting point from which to unleash a barrage of stimulation to be perceived independently they perfectly represent post-modernist thinking that there is not necessarily an underlying cosmic truth, but that as long as we all agree that there is a consensus of opinion and thought, there may as well be. Lacking the need for formal education and debate on angels dancing on the head of a pin, these are the new opiates for the masses – accessible at some level by all.

Therefore, in summary – something completely different: