Sheila LaFountain wrote:
> ;-))) I'm more interested for the moment in how your email (indirectly)
> fosters pollution.
>
Seriously? My email a) uses electricity, which is currently fueled by burning finite
resources, that burning often produces pollution and encourages strip mining and/or
deforestation for more fuel which in turn spurs more pollution, and which is transported
through shielded wires that nonetheless leak some emw's out into the local surroundings,
polluting once more, b) supports my email server, which is a company, my phone company in
fact, which means phone books (trees), more wires (and more trees), more electricity (etc),
and c) will get stored and transferred on computers with a limited lifespan, supporting the
computer industry, which will eventually use the profits from my computer purchases and uses
for new products which will displace my current laptop, resulting in more trade-ups, increase
junk, water run off from the laptop battery, etc. I assume that's enough.
> As Foucault says somewhere at the beginning of Arch of Kn I believe, we
> can only take things up in the middle and we must begin somewhere. Is
> there any decision to be made with full knowledge which your comment
> seems to imply?
>
I guess that to me we are always in the middle, since the middle is as subjective a place in
which to finf (define) oneself as is the outside. Apart from that, I don't understand
exactly what you're asking here... If you're supposing that knowledge of potential
consequences are ultimately unknowable, I imagine that almost everyone would agree. I'm
really just interested in opinions as to what to do from the standpoint of justice given our
limitations and the elusive and often counterproductive ideal of social justice. Are we to
abandon notions of justice, dance around the historical object through redefinition, or
plunge ahead nonetheless, knowing that we can't know the potential outcome? Thoughts on
that?
> Is there someone who might give us a foucauldian analysis of what's
> going on/been going on in chile by those people who've actually been
> there and know something about what's going on? That would be a very
> interesting read.
>
Indeed, though I fear the recent emails about the need for prolonged study make a prolonged
analysis unlikely.
Ken Rufo