-----Mensaje original-----
De: Marcos Peralta <Marcos.Peralta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Para: 'foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
<foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fecha: Viernes 13 de Noviembre de 1998 19:06
Asunto: Pinochet and disappeared
Hola Marcos.
vivo en Buenos Aires y estoy, como vos, suscripta a la lista de Foucault de
la Universidad de Virginia (¿dónde vivís?)
Aún no soy muy ducha en informática. Estoy suscripta a la lista de filosofía
de la UBA y sé como mandar los mensajes. Pero no he tenido éxito con esta
lista de Foucault.
¿Serías tan amable de indicarme cómo diablos mando un mensaje a la lista?
(Sé que estoy suscripta porque me llegó el acuse de recibo).
Gracias! Saludos
Ana
>Ian, I have some thoughts ... (but not very academic ones)
>
>I think that what happened in Chile (as well as in Argentina -my country-
>and many other South American countries) is a good example of what Foucault
>says in the first part of your quote.
>
>I think that Chile is an extreme example (extreme at least for Americans
and
>western Europeans) of how an specific group can use the different forms of
>legitimized control (justice, the existence of a military force,
regulations
>about what is moral or not, etc) to support its political hegemony.
>
>Further, I think that today the same reasoning applies. Even though I am
not
>a Pinochet supporter, I have to agree that this intent to judge Pinochet is
>a political act. And sincerely, I don't think that this fact is necesarily
>bad.
>
>Besides this debate around the use of justice as a political tool, I think
>that there is a much more interesting physics-of-power analysis to be made
>about the Chilean process such as, how
>did Chileans build networks to develop opposition activities at their local
>level of influence? how did they build connections with other nodes? how
did
>Pinochet and his allies confronted the micro-networks that opposed them?.
>
>I think that an analysis like this may generate good insights about how to
>develop strategies at the micro-physic level of power to combat a
>macro-physic state-driven hegemony.
>
>Saludos / Regards
>
>Marcos A. Peralta
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Robert Douglas [mailto:Ian_Robert_Douglas@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 7:43 PM
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: disappeared
>
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on Pinochet? There is an interesting
>response from Foucault in _Remarks on Marx_ where he states, "It seems to
>me that the idea of justice in itself is an idea which in effect has been
>invented and put to work in different types of societies as an instrument
>of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon against that power
>.. One can't .. put these notions forward to justify a fight which should
>.. overthrow the very fundaments of our society."
> I'm quoting out of context, of course, but I wonder what Foucault might
>have said about Pinochet. Or better still--for we shouldn't feel any need
>to parrot-fashion attempt to use the words he might use--I wonder what
>people who, like myself, have been deeply influenced by his force of
>thinking and intervention think about this immediate issue.
>
>best wishes/sincerely,
>
>____________________________________________
>Ian Robert Douglas,
>Watson Institute of International Studies,
>Brown University, Box 1831,
>130 Hope Street,
>Providence, RI 02912
>
>tel: 401 863-2420
>fax: 401 863-2192
>
>"Above all, we must keep firmly in mind what
> it means to be a human being." - Kierkegaard
>