he supported Khomeyni, just because he stood against U.S.
any takers?
ao
At 05:12 PM 5/16/1999 PDT, you wrote:
>Sam notes
>
>>is the fact that Foucault's name has entirely dropped out of a dialogue on>
>>Kosovo on a Foucault list, no less some indication of the relevance of
>>his>work to the analysis of international matters?
>
>Good question. Somebody did raise an interesting question recently (which
>no-one answered) about Foucault in relation to all encompassing versus piece
>meal actions/explanations. Personally I think that there are quite a few of
>Foucault's ideas which could be applied very readily to the Kosovo situation
>and also to the debate around it. If I had the time I would make a few
>suggestions -it would certainly be more interesting to see a few of
>Foucault's ideas applied productively and moving things forward rather than
>boring moral and political slanging matches.Even a discussion of why
>Foucault's ideas can't be applied to the situation would be interesting.
>
>There's a lot of stuff on power-knowledge, limits of tolerance of the
>application of power, governmentality etc which would be highly relevant.
>Any takers??? If Foucault were alive I'm sure he would be out there himself
>with quite a few ideas on Kosovo.
>
>Clare
>
>
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any takers?
ao
At 05:12 PM 5/16/1999 PDT, you wrote:
>Sam notes
>
>>is the fact that Foucault's name has entirely dropped out of a dialogue on>
>>Kosovo on a Foucault list, no less some indication of the relevance of
>>his>work to the analysis of international matters?
>
>Good question. Somebody did raise an interesting question recently (which
>no-one answered) about Foucault in relation to all encompassing versus piece
>meal actions/explanations. Personally I think that there are quite a few of
>Foucault's ideas which could be applied very readily to the Kosovo situation
>and also to the debate around it. If I had the time I would make a few
>suggestions -it would certainly be more interesting to see a few of
>Foucault's ideas applied productively and moving things forward rather than
>boring moral and political slanging matches.Even a discussion of why
>Foucault's ideas can't be applied to the situation would be interesting.
>
>There's a lot of stuff on power-knowledge, limits of tolerance of the
>application of power, governmentality etc which would be highly relevant.
>Any takers??? If Foucault were alive I'm sure he would be out there himself
>with quite a few ideas on Kosovo.
>
>Clare
>
>
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<bold><italic>The foucaldien ethos has already reached his/her eternal
utopia in the "present". No need for further move!
</italic></bold>