Michel Foucault on Insanity

Ever have those times where you're studying something and having the words just wash through your brain when all of a sudden SNAP! You just realized what you were reading? Well I just realized that I was reading about insanity after having obsessed about the new theme for K Squared Radio: A Dose of Insanity.

Michel Foucault is a French theorist *honhonhon* who "found that the defnition of what constitutes insanity and what to do about it have changed dramatically over time. People with power drew arbitrary lines between the normal and the abnormal and these destintions became discursive formations [the processes by which unquestioned and seemingly natural ways of interpreting the world become ideologies] that had real, physical effects on those deemed to belong to each group. Over time these unquestioned and seemingly natural ways of interpreting the world became ideologies, which then perpetuated themselves through further discourse [the combination of communication and culture]. The right to make meaning can literally be the power to make others crazy" (Griffin 338).

So basically, if you listen to me, I can define insanity however I want. SO... MUCH... POWER!!!11oneoneone!! But manipulation isn't the point of this radio show. If it were, people might start to catch on and stop listening and if a radio show is broadcasted in a forest of media technologies and no one is there to here it, does it really make a sound?

K Squared Radio is meant to be something interesting that will gather groups of people around a radio or dorm TV to hang out and listen to. It's supposed to spark conversation and inspire you to see the insane, quirky, krazy, and weird in the everyday. It's something to listen to when you do your homework. It's not meant to be jarring or unsettling... unless you want it to be. And it's here for you on the Internet, to accomodate your busy schedules. And it should be for you. Want to help define insanity? Email ksquaredradio@gmail.com with an idea for a theme and let me know when you're available to come in studio. Then we'll talk. We'll talk krazy.

Source Cited:
Griffin , Em . A First Look at Communication Theory. 7th. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2009.