Mesmerized by this work by #GabrielOrozco in Diaro de plantas @GChantalCrousel. Like an inverted Mondrian (who went from the natural to the geometric), this work flowers from within the geometric. Totally thought the artist was Japanese, tho they take tataki zomé as inspiration.

#FoucaultFragments 46: "To discover the permanent weakness of desire as the secret root of oneself; to constitute oneself as a subject of knowledge by coming to see oneself as a subject of desire. This is an altogether different game of truth, a different technique of confession" « Découvrir comme un secret au fond de soi même, la faiblesse permanente du désir ; se constituer comme sujet de connaissance en se révélant à soi même comme sujet de désir,--cela relève d’un tout autre jeu de vérité. D’une tout autre technique d’aveu. » #Foucault @laBNF 62.4.67

Michel Foucault's draft of the 4th volume in the History of Sexuality was translated as "Confessions of the Flesh" last week. Focused on early Christian sources, Confessions makes better sense when looking at Foucault's engagement with Christian texts from 1974-1984 as we have... ...been charting over the last three years. See data visualizations with Foucault's citing text (L), Christian author (C), text cited (R), with manipulable citation thresholds at observablehq.com/embed/@johnmul…