At 6:47 AM +0800 14/5/99, Christopher Chase wrote:
>kjkhoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I'm just a lurker ignoramus shooting off his mouth -- but surely,
>> given that this is the foucault list, the issue isn't about
>> addressing every situation at once or none at all, but why some are
>> addressed and others not?
>
>If so, then this list has nothing to do with Foucault. One of the major
>criticisms of his writings I find valid is that he concentrates
>on microstudies of power that cannot be put into some larger, consistent
>context. As such it becomes almost impossible to get a general
>idea of his operating parameters. If we are going to ask this question
>of NATO, then perhaps we should ask it of Foucault, seeing as how
>this IS a Foucault listserv....
Again, I may be wrong, but while his works may be 'microstudies',
they are hardly studies of micro-power but indeed address that larger
context within which power(s) is exercised. Aren't his studies
precisely of the operating and operative parameters? Maybe this might
be clearer in the earlier works on madness, sickness and health, the
archeology of knowledge?
Again, no Foucauldian expert, but just a lurker ignoramus.
KJ Khoo
>kjkhoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> I'm just a lurker ignoramus shooting off his mouth -- but surely,
>> given that this is the foucault list, the issue isn't about
>> addressing every situation at once or none at all, but why some are
>> addressed and others not?
>
>If so, then this list has nothing to do with Foucault. One of the major
>criticisms of his writings I find valid is that he concentrates
>on microstudies of power that cannot be put into some larger, consistent
>context. As such it becomes almost impossible to get a general
>idea of his operating parameters. If we are going to ask this question
>of NATO, then perhaps we should ask it of Foucault, seeing as how
>this IS a Foucault listserv....
Again, I may be wrong, but while his works may be 'microstudies',
they are hardly studies of micro-power but indeed address that larger
context within which power(s) is exercised. Aren't his studies
precisely of the operating and operative parameters? Maybe this might
be clearer in the earlier works on madness, sickness and health, the
archeology of knowledge?
Again, no Foucauldian expert, but just a lurker ignoramus.
KJ Khoo