Re: Capitalist power is not possessed.



On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:

> It also seems to me
> that while Foucault himself tied the development of the prison, for
> example, to the creation of capitalist labor markets, most Foucaultians
> don't take him up on this.

I think that's perceptive--when I first got into Foucault, I began by
reading HS1 (not really knowing what was going on), then went back to
D&P--and one of the things that immediately struck me was how much D&P
seems to be flavoured by Marx, and how that flavour completely drops out
between the two books. But I've never seen anyone else comment on that
shift, so I kind of wondered if I imagined it.

Matthew

----Matthew A. King------Department of Philosophy------McMaster University----
"The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
-----------------------------(Michel Foucault)--------------------------------



Partial thread listing: