I just joined the list yesterday. One thing I've noticed about Foucault is
that the body (no pun) of his work seems to straddle two "schools" of
Critical Theory. By this, I mean that, in certain ways, we like to "group"
him with the French post-structuralists such as Derrida, Lacan (more of a
structuralist), etc., but in other ways, his perspective seems to fit in
better with the work of Jurgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School. I realize
I may be oversimplifying, but what strikes me is the suprising lack of
compatibility between these two "paradigms" of Foucault, the former being
more literary and (post-)psychoanalytical and the letter being more
empirical-historical and philosophy of science oriented. I think that this
discontinuity in the philosophical discourses surrounding Foucault may lie
central to your own issue, but I do not personally know how to go about
resolving it.
Some works you may fing interesting are Judith Butler's essay on
"Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault" or
Jana Sawicki's "Foucault and Feminism: A Critical Reappraisal" (Sawicki's
essay is contained in a book entitled "Disciplining Foucault: Feminism,
Power, and the Body," but I read it reproduced somewhere else). Nancy
Fraser's work may, I think, particularly come in useful for your project.
>From: valkiain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Foucault, Gender, Organizations
>Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:30:32 +0300 (EET DST)
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have just recently joined the list and would like to know whether there
>is
>anybody who is interested in applying Foucault's power-knowledge-bodies
>prism to
>analyzing organizational practices as and through the processes of
>subjectivation. I am particularly keen on practices of gendering the
>workforce
>and what social and political implications do these subjectivating
>practices
>bear on the 'body of labor.' It sounds rather elusive, I know, but this is
>exactly why I would like to take up the issue of concrete empirical
>analysis of
>the modes of subjectivation as and through the social organization of
>bodies.
>Broadly put, I want to ask how much is Foucault and his genealogical
>'tools'
>susceptible, so to speak, of empirical analysis as such? And if they are,
>as it
>seems to me, then how could one embark on concrete empirical study? Has
>anybody
>come across these issues in general, and especially the ones pertaining to
>gender and organizations?
>
>vv
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that the body (no pun) of his work seems to straddle two "schools" of
Critical Theory. By this, I mean that, in certain ways, we like to "group"
him with the French post-structuralists such as Derrida, Lacan (more of a
structuralist), etc., but in other ways, his perspective seems to fit in
better with the work of Jurgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School. I realize
I may be oversimplifying, but what strikes me is the suprising lack of
compatibility between these two "paradigms" of Foucault, the former being
more literary and (post-)psychoanalytical and the letter being more
empirical-historical and philosophy of science oriented. I think that this
discontinuity in the philosophical discourses surrounding Foucault may lie
central to your own issue, but I do not personally know how to go about
resolving it.
Some works you may fing interesting are Judith Butler's essay on
"Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault" or
Jana Sawicki's "Foucault and Feminism: A Critical Reappraisal" (Sawicki's
essay is contained in a book entitled "Disciplining Foucault: Feminism,
Power, and the Body," but I read it reproduced somewhere else). Nancy
Fraser's work may, I think, particularly come in useful for your project.
>From: valkiain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Foucault, Gender, Organizations
>Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:30:32 +0300 (EET DST)
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have just recently joined the list and would like to know whether there
>is
>anybody who is interested in applying Foucault's power-knowledge-bodies
>prism to
>analyzing organizational practices as and through the processes of
>subjectivation. I am particularly keen on practices of gendering the
>workforce
>and what social and political implications do these subjectivating
>practices
>bear on the 'body of labor.' It sounds rather elusive, I know, but this is
>exactly why I would like to take up the issue of concrete empirical
>analysis of
>the modes of subjectivation as and through the social organization of
>bodies.
>Broadly put, I want to ask how much is Foucault and his genealogical
>'tools'
>susceptible, so to speak, of empirical analysis as such? And if they are,
>as it
>seems to me, then how could one embark on concrete empirical study? Has
>anybody
>come across these issues in general, and especially the ones pertaining to
>gender and organizations?
>
>vv
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