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+  From: Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:37:46 -0800
> In terms of content, what Foucault and Althusser investigated
> respectively in their best known works enriches our understanding of
> what is called "social reproduction"* in Marxist literature. But I
> wasn't speaking at the level of content. I was suggesting that words
> that have transhistorical application, such as experience and
> production, often obscure discontinuities in history.

but i would want to argue that Foucault's use of experience does not obscure but precisely emphasises such discontinuities in history.


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