> Heh, heh, at current count there are actually 530 people subbed to
this
> here group.
WOW ~!~
You'd wonder where the heck they all are!
I haven't responded to any of the messages I've seen since
I felt that in each case the person was quite close to the
basic gist of Foucault, yet still somehow polluting the
conceptualization of the work with old biases that creep up
out of language formulating. (Sketchy & ungrammatical,
sorry...I'm writing a paper on F. as we speak, yet I have to
make it down to the bar in an hour.....leaving me 3 days
to write 35 pages....UGH! I may as well do it drunk, right?)
I'd say that Foucault is a tricky guy to speak about. The
form your use to express his ideas can mistakenly betray
old ways of thinking. Folks may have the gist of his points,
but, to really speak of Foucault well you must study him for
quite a while before even a few words can be put together
without betraying an inability to examine the discipline which
you speak from, at the same time as joining the dialogue.
I can imagine that those who really haev a grasp are afraid
of having their time absorbed by constantly having to explain
what others popularly misinterpret, or only partially grasp.
In fac,t I've just finished reading a great amount of material
on the body, and I am shocked by how many academics
>from accross the disicplines try to reform his ideas into
analytic structures. Even those trying to include him without
changing him come to speak of power as an energy, when
it is quite clear that Foucault sees power as a function
without essence which produces truth relationships, but is
not itself a substantial thing.
WHile the word energy is small, it makes a growing world
of difference since its use begins to multiply the problems
with its frequency of use!
So, if folks are pretty silent here, I cannot blame them.
Foucault is even worse than Nietzsche and Kant rolled
together....or dare I say folded into one another?<wink>
Eric Nelson Shook mailto:enshook@xxxxxxxxxxx
Student of Philosophy & Cultural Anthropology
"Alienation hasn't enough sense to deliberate
over circumstances. It has no sense of humor."
this
> here group.
WOW ~!~
You'd wonder where the heck they all are!
I haven't responded to any of the messages I've seen since
I felt that in each case the person was quite close to the
basic gist of Foucault, yet still somehow polluting the
conceptualization of the work with old biases that creep up
out of language formulating. (Sketchy & ungrammatical,
sorry...I'm writing a paper on F. as we speak, yet I have to
make it down to the bar in an hour.....leaving me 3 days
to write 35 pages....UGH! I may as well do it drunk, right?)
I'd say that Foucault is a tricky guy to speak about. The
form your use to express his ideas can mistakenly betray
old ways of thinking. Folks may have the gist of his points,
but, to really speak of Foucault well you must study him for
quite a while before even a few words can be put together
without betraying an inability to examine the discipline which
you speak from, at the same time as joining the dialogue.
I can imagine that those who really haev a grasp are afraid
of having their time absorbed by constantly having to explain
what others popularly misinterpret, or only partially grasp.
In fac,t I've just finished reading a great amount of material
on the body, and I am shocked by how many academics
>from accross the disicplines try to reform his ideas into
analytic structures. Even those trying to include him without
changing him come to speak of power as an energy, when
it is quite clear that Foucault sees power as a function
without essence which produces truth relationships, but is
not itself a substantial thing.
WHile the word energy is small, it makes a growing world
of difference since its use begins to multiply the problems
with its frequency of use!
So, if folks are pretty silent here, I cannot blame them.
Foucault is even worse than Nietzsche and Kant rolled
together....or dare I say folded into one another?<wink>
Eric Nelson Shook mailto:enshook@xxxxxxxxxxx
Student of Philosophy & Cultural Anthropology
"Alienation hasn't enough sense to deliberate
over circumstances. It has no sense of humor."