ANDY's definitions
by Andy November 20, 2005
Get the trunk junkiemug. Concept used in the work of Michel Foucault, to denote the interchangeability and mutual supportiveness of power and knowledge. Because he thought a regime of power always constructs forms of knowledge and a regime of knowledge always institutes a regime of power, he fused the two words into a single concept.
For example, prisons are an example of a regime of power/knowledge: the observation of prisoners and the recording of different categories of criminality are in many ways identical with the process of incarceration itself, as a system of control of people's bodies and of physical spaces.
For example, prisons are an example of a regime of power/knowledge: the observation of prisoners and the recording of different categories of criminality are in many ways identical with the process of incarceration itself, as a system of control of people's bodies and of physical spaces.
Mental asylums, schools, armies, etc. are all different examples of regimes of power/knowledge. The way in which people are recorded as elements in these discourses is connected to their subordination to or complicity in particular relations of power.
by Andy May 7, 2004
Get the power/knowledgemug. The northern region of New Jersey. Provides easy access to NYC. If you're from North Jersey as opposed to South Jersey, you are much cooler by comparison.
by Andy May 6, 2003
Get the North Jerseymug. by Andy July 13, 2003
Get the Brummiemug. In Old English, "wan" means pale and sickly, and a "cur" is a mongrel, and also a term for a contemptible person. Hence, a "wan cur" is a sick, contemptible person.
Later misspelled as "wanker".
Later misspelled as "wanker".
by Andy May 28, 2004
Get the wankermug. 1) Noldorin Elf, brother of Finrod, who was next in line to the throne of Nargothrond when Finrod was slain by Sauron. The weak-willed Orophin was usurped by Celegorm and Curufin, but took power with the aid of Beren after his return. He established Nargothrond as an unassailable hidden realm, but succumbed to pressure form Turin to adopt a more aggressive approach, and was slain in the sacking of Nargothrond.
2) Elf, brother of Haldir and Rumil, one of the three who encountered the Fellowship of the Ring on the borders of Lorien. He couldn't speak Westron.
2) Elf, brother of Haldir and Rumil, one of the three who encountered the Fellowship of the Ring on the borders of Lorien. He couldn't speak Westron.
Both are Tolkien characters.
by Andy July 22, 2004
Get the Orophinmug. by Andy September 2, 2004
Get the Dirty Joey the 2ndmug.