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Nate,
>From where is the quote on your signature taken? Is it from Intellectual
and Power as well? As for your question, I am curious to see what
answers will appear in the coming days.
Jesper.
Nathan Goralnik wrote:
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> I was pondering the quote on my signature yesterday. As you can see,
> Foucault says that "thought, at the level of its existence, in its
> very dawning" "cannot help but liberate and enslave." This is
> perplexing. I've found that most of Foucault's work has critiqued not
> thought itself, but rather the practices that it has (often
> inadvertently) entailed. One conception of a problem can limit the
> horizon of possible solutions; one conception of an individual or a
> group can entail certain special treatments of that individual or
> that group. But all of this seems to critique the practices that stem
> from thought, rather than thought itself.
>
> Clearly, thought is an action, but how can Foucault so easily say, as
> he does in Intellectuals and Power, that "theory is practice?"
>
> ~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
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Nate,
>From where is the quote on your signature taken? Is it from Intellectual
and Power as well? As for your question, I am curious to see what
answers will appear in the coming days.
Jesper.
Nathan Goralnik wrote:
>
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> I was pondering the quote on my signature yesterday. As you can see,
> Foucault says that "thought, at the level of its existence, in its
> very dawning" "cannot help but liberate and enslave." This is
> perplexing. I've found that most of Foucault's work has critiqued not
> thought itself, but rather the practices that it has (often
> inadvertently) entailed. One conception of a problem can limit the
> horizon of possible solutions; one conception of an individual or a
> group can entail certain special treatments of that individual or
> that group. But all of this seems to critique the practices that stem
> from thought, rather than thought itself.
>
> Clearly, thought is an action, but how can Foucault so easily say, as
> he does in Intellectuals and Power, that "theory is practice?"
>
> ~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
>
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