Alternative Truth Research Articles

The politics of sex: truth games and the Hite Reports

In this article I propose a Foucauldian reading of the Hite Reports which constrct sexaulity as a political issue, calling for new politics of sex.My main aim is to analyse the discursive strategies adopted by the Hite Reports in their challenge to ‘dominant’ discourse on sex. These strategies centre on the problmatization of our curreent regims of truth,associated with what has been generalized as the ‘oppresssion of woman’. The Hite Reports constiute sexual norms as objects of ‘scientific’ analysis, as well as of political struggle. Their aim is to liberate subjugated knowledge which should serve to work upon the matrices of transformation of power/knowledge relations regarding sex. On the basis of ‘scientic’ results, which are claimed to express subjective experience, Hite formulates alternative truth gamesabout sexuality.

Response to Berman's Critique of the Tree of Knowledge

This article is Maturana's response to Morris Berman's review of The Thee of Knowledge by Maturana and Varela. Maturana claims that Berman partially misunderstood the book and explains that, far from advocating passivity in the face of evil, the book asks that we act out of responsible, personally chosen love, instead of from the belief that we hold a better "truth." In the case of Chile, this would mean opposing Pinochet for personal and cultural reasons rather than alleged biological principles of viability. Nothing is gained by attempting to defeat tyrants with the tyranny of our own imposed, alternative truth.