I've no doubt, if alive, Foucault would be talking about Kosovo; can't we
talk about Kosovo without talking about him? With many other listserv
groups I'm in favour of a division of labour, but with Foucault--just
simply because of the man--I find it difficult to separate the relevant
from the not so relevant (I know Clare you weren't saying Kosovo is beyond
our remit). Sometimes it doesn't even stop at my shopping list, but then
that only goes to show that indeed, we can think Foucault without having to
name him. "Philosophy's sole aim is to become worthy of the event", writes
Deleuze. Does anyone have any thoughts, powerful ones, on what on earth is
happening in this emerging catastrophe?
best wishes/sincerely,
______________________________________________
Ian R. Douglas | Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University, Box 1831, Providence, RI 02912 USA
tel: 401 863-2420 fax: 401 863-2192
"There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals think.
And these ideas are more active, stronger, more
resistant, more passionate than 'politicians' think.
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting
outward of their force: not in books expressing them,
but in events manifesting this force .. " - Foucault
http://www.powerfoundation.org
talk about Kosovo without talking about him? With many other listserv
groups I'm in favour of a division of labour, but with Foucault--just
simply because of the man--I find it difficult to separate the relevant
from the not so relevant (I know Clare you weren't saying Kosovo is beyond
our remit). Sometimes it doesn't even stop at my shopping list, but then
that only goes to show that indeed, we can think Foucault without having to
name him. "Philosophy's sole aim is to become worthy of the event", writes
Deleuze. Does anyone have any thoughts, powerful ones, on what on earth is
happening in this emerging catastrophe?
best wishes/sincerely,
______________________________________________
Ian R. Douglas | Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University, Box 1831, Providence, RI 02912 USA
tel: 401 863-2420 fax: 401 863-2192
"There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals think.
And these ideas are more active, stronger, more
resistant, more passionate than 'politicians' think.
We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting
outward of their force: not in books expressing them,
but in events manifesting this force .. " - Foucault
http://www.powerfoundation.org