Re: not Foucault and kosovo

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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