) Coriolis, G.G., 1832 Mémoire sur le principe des forces vives dans les mouvements relatifs des machines.

Simulation of a two part pendulum

All right, so, I've got a metronome, and it's the world's smallest metronome, the well, I shouldn't advertise.

The Japanese word for this type of uniform is .

As an example, let's take a beautiful, old, mechanical grandfather clock.

Anyway, so this is the world's smallest metronome.

In the words of Michel Foucault, it is a technology of the self.

But the problem is, as Foucault points out, that every technology of the self has a technology of domination as its flip side.

And I want you to see, this is Fuku, a young female, and she is quietly playing with water.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

Foko Club in Madagascar weren't actually concerned with trying to change the image of their country.

Observers debate whether it will eventually reach a new equilibrium.

And the high school students who were learning to blog through Foko Club suddenly found themselves talking to an international audience about the demonstrations, the violence, everything that was going on within this country.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life? as Michel Foucault puts it.

And so the people who founded Foko Club in Madagascar weren't actually concerned with trying to change the image of their country.

It has not swung back to Stalinism Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.

And the high school students who were learning to blog through Foko Club suddenly found themselves talking to an international audience about the demonstrations, the violence, everything that was going on within this country.

It had swung too far in the direction of chaos under Yeltsin, and has now swung too far in the direction of order and state control under Putin.

Like the peoples of other United Nations Members who have fought for their freedom, thousands of Nicaraguans have died for it, victims of a perverse pendulum that swung from authoritarianism to totalitarianism.

In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.

Drawing particularly from the theories of Michel Foucault and performativity in western academia, and the more diverse influences of postcolonial theory, there has been a concerted effort to deconstruct the cultural in order to make apparent the various power relations.

In his study of truth telling in ancient Greece, the philosopher Michel Foucault pointed out that the act of truth telling cannot be reduced to citizens learning something that they did not know before.