{"id":309,"date":"2007-07-11T06:14:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/07\/11\/foucault-think-poker\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T06:14:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:14:01","slug":"foucault-think-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/07\/11\/foucault-think-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"foucault – think poker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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if you want to ride along on the world series of poker, if you enjoyed holden’s big deal and the original alverez, then latch on to foucault. reading him is like being there.<\/p>\n

Forwarded Conversation
\nSubject: Quick Update
\n————————<\/p>\n

From: andrew@bostondebate.org
\nDate: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 4:11 AM<\/p>\n

Wow, what an absolutely huge day today. I’ll get out a report with all
\nthe details hopefully tomorrow, but I finished with 344,100 (average
\nshould be around 160,000), up from 30,100 at the beginning of the day.<\/p>\n

Off to bed.<\/p>\n

——–
\nFrom: Charles Nesson
\nTo: “andrew@bostondebate.org”
\nDate: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 6:31 AM<\/p>\n

fantastic
\ngo go go
\ni am totally hanging on your reports<\/a>
\nthey are great<\/p>\n

—
\nwhen appropriate (in my judgment) to an open project and not sensitive (in my judgment) in terms of privacy, i may post email to my blog. all privacy requests respected.<\/p>\n

I left the house around 11AM on Friday bound for the Rio and the main
\nevent of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Vegas is experiencing record
\nhighs for the week, with the thermometer topping out near 120 degrees.
\nIt’s enough to leave me sweating after a two block walk to the car. As
\nI cruised up I-15 with A\/C on full blast, George Thorogood came on the
\nradio. I’m not generally the sort to sing out loud, but this seemed
\nlike a good way to get pumped up, so I declared along with him that I
\nwas, “B-b-b-b-b-aaaaaad. Bad to the bone!” Then, sadly, an even more
\nfitting song came on: Elton John’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”.<\/p>\n

This year, 6000 people are expected to enter the $10,000 poker
\ntournament. If that number proves accurate, then there will be 5999
\nbroken hearts. No one enters the tournament without a dream of winning
\nit, and in fact, everyone has a chance, no matter how slim, of
\nactually taking home the bracelet. One of the keys to poker’s appeal
\nis that it blends elements of skill and luck. The best players win
\noften enough to show a profit, but they still lose often enough to
\ngive everyone else a chance. Even though I believe I had a substantial
\nedge over last year’s field, I was still very fortunate to finish in
\nthe money. There were many players better than I who did not do as
\nwell, and many players worse than I who did better. That’s poker, and
\nheart-breaking as it can be, it’s also the beauty of the game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Michel Foucault (1926 \u2013 1984)
\nTruth, for Michel Foucault, is problematic when any attempt is made to see truth as an “objective” quality. He prefers not to use the term truth itself but “Regimes of Truth”. In his historical investigations he found truth to be something that was itself a part of, or embedded within, a given power structure. <\/p>\n

begin with the meta idea of truth we all share
\neach of us may have our own and all of us have one
\nmove to the necker cube and three hats and seeing from another’s point of view
\nthen poker
\nfoucault – think poker
\ncc on the chips – icommons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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