Dan wrote:
>Greetings all
>
>A suggestion: instead of bickering among ourselves, lets inform each other
>about Foucault and his type of philosophizing.
Which is self-evident and universally agreed upon I suppose?
In short, I'd say this
>listserve in its present condition "sucks" and does a serious disservice to
>the radical texture of Foucault's epistemological revolution.
Oh, an epistemological revolution. Maybe I've missed something but isn't
this very fact, that is, the claim that F work constitutes such a
revolution, what's at issue.
>From now on,
>I suggest that no one type in any more of their own thoughts (unless done so
>in connection with a genuine Foucauldian object);
A disciplinary technique perhaps? A defining of the boundaries of LEGITIMATE
debate?
I think things would be a
>lot better if we we should merely translate Foucault's words (in paragraphs)
>into electronic form, thus getting them OUT THERE with the potential of
>infinite reproducibility.
'Live by the words of the book sayeth the prophet. Question not the words of
the master.'
eIn other words, I think that the BEST thing that
>CAN EVER come out of this list would beto quote Foucault and his various (or
>related) texts, or those written about him.
Oh, slavish devotion. All sing along now: 'Take me home you country roads'
This will certainly take less
>time than coming up with inane things to say on a regular basis, and will
>also prove to be more enlightening.
A curious last word is it not?
>
>I'll start with the opening section of THE ORDER OF THINGS:
Sorry, Ive already read this.
Bye.
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"What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which
thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the
thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are
simple minded."
(Foucault)
Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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>Greetings all
>
>A suggestion: instead of bickering among ourselves, lets inform each other
>about Foucault and his type of philosophizing.
Which is self-evident and universally agreed upon I suppose?
In short, I'd say this
>listserve in its present condition "sucks" and does a serious disservice to
>the radical texture of Foucault's epistemological revolution.
Oh, an epistemological revolution. Maybe I've missed something but isn't
this very fact, that is, the claim that F work constitutes such a
revolution, what's at issue.
>From now on,
>I suggest that no one type in any more of their own thoughts (unless done so
>in connection with a genuine Foucauldian object);
A disciplinary technique perhaps? A defining of the boundaries of LEGITIMATE
debate?
I think things would be a
>lot better if we we should merely translate Foucault's words (in paragraphs)
>into electronic form, thus getting them OUT THERE with the potential of
>infinite reproducibility.
'Live by the words of the book sayeth the prophet. Question not the words of
the master.'
eIn other words, I think that the BEST thing that
>CAN EVER come out of this list would beto quote Foucault and his various (or
>related) texts, or those written about him.
Oh, slavish devotion. All sing along now: 'Take me home you country roads'
This will certainly take less
>time than coming up with inane things to say on a regular basis, and will
>also prove to be more enlightening.
A curious last word is it not?
>
>I'll start with the opening section of THE ORDER OF THINGS:
Sorry, Ive already read this.
Bye.
--------------------------------------------------------
"What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which
thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the
thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are
simple minded."
(Foucault)
Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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