How F.'s comment on Iran's rev. can be related to environment?
I am really preoccupied by his position on Iran. Does anybody have any
texts on this subject?
I would appreciate the info.
Thanks
Atefeh
At 05:28 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Robert L. Behrens wrote:
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>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, brian mcbride wrote:
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>> 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,
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> 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
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> 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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Az Khak Bar'amadim-o- Bar Khak Shodym
I am really preoccupied by his position on Iran. Does anybody have any
texts on this subject?
I would appreciate the info.
Thanks
Atefeh
At 05:28 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Robert L. Behrens wrote:
>
>
>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...
>>
>>
>
>
Az Khak Bar'amadim-o- Bar Khak Shodym