A couple of weeks ago The New Yorker (unless I am confused) published a big
article on the civil war going on in central Africa. One of the leaders down
there used Foucault to justify some of the more brutal absurdities going on
down there. Of course, I may simply be misinterpreting the quote--it was
incoherent.
~Nate
--
"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it
offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates,
unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave.
Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must
be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm,
thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is
in itself an action--a perilous act."
-Michel Foucault
article on the civil war going on in central Africa. One of the leaders down
there used Foucault to justify some of the more brutal absurdities going on
down there. Of course, I may simply be misinterpreting the quote--it was
incoherent.
~Nate
--
"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it
offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates,
unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave.
Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must
be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm,
thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is
in itself an action--a perilous act."
-Michel Foucault