ruth gustafson wrote:
> I am reading Butler and I came across that idea---but I can't get very far
> with it except that Foucault does seem to privilege or essentialize some
> elements of his framework but this has been said before in that he makes
> some structure of power-knowledge. I am very interested in how discourse
> travels, through what institutions and nexi so I find Foucault's
> 'structure' helpful. But at the same time I am looking into discourses of
> the imaginary and how tht may or may not be colonized by other discourses
> which is I think what Butler examines, in part, in Bodies that matter.
Could you give a short reply by what you mean by "being imaginized". I am
interensting in how cultural body images turn into "literal images" or
"fragments of literal images" Any idea?
> Can
> one invent a liberated, maybe better to say undisciplined voice? Anyone?
> Ruthg
>
> Ruth Gustafson