Re: Foucault and the Environment?



On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, brian mcbride wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone out there in the rather silent Foucault land knew
> of any discussion of a Foucauldian approach to the environment. How about,
> maybe a discussion of Nietzsche's writing on nature? I'm trying to think
> how power/knowledge might specifically operate in environmental discourse.
> I can understand how present environmental discourse might serve as a
> quasi-scientific body of knowledge,

I might suggest looking at some of Foucault's comments on Iran and how
the spriritual/political movement there was the driving force in radical
change in that country.
RB



but I'm wondering what space of
> resistance exists for an environmental crisis which seems to be seen as
> largely a by-product of capitalism and the fetishism of consumption. In
> other words, I need help understanding how Foucault's analysis of power in
> discursive formations can be utilized to understand environmental
> destruction AND to orient people towards some alternative.
>
> feel no harm...
>
>


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