Someone wrote:
> Clearly, Foucault as well as academics in general have their
>subjectivities constituted by relations of power/knowledge as much as
>anyone else. As such, Foucault's works are effects of 'author functions.'
>But if that is all there is then I do not see a particular problem with
>recognizing that his works are 'effects' instead of the product of a
>creative intentionality that attained the relatively omniscient status of
>an academic that saw the 'truth' of power.
> This would be a problem if F argued that power relations were or
>are monolithic and fixed. But F's argument is that power relations are
>multiple and in constant transformation producing both normalizing
>discourse/practices and d/p's that pervert or subvert the former.
> Presumably, Foucault's works are of the latter sort.
And I reply.
Presumably?
Why?
>
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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> Clearly, Foucault as well as academics in general have their
>subjectivities constituted by relations of power/knowledge as much as
>anyone else. As such, Foucault's works are effects of 'author functions.'
>But if that is all there is then I do not see a particular problem with
>recognizing that his works are 'effects' instead of the product of a
>creative intentionality that attained the relatively omniscient status of
>an academic that saw the 'truth' of power.
> This would be a problem if F argued that power relations were or
>are monolithic and fixed. But F's argument is that power relations are
>multiple and in constant transformation producing both normalizing
>discourse/practices and d/p's that pervert or subvert the former.
> Presumably, Foucault's works are of the latter sort.
And I reply.
Presumably?
Why?
>
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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