We can not ensure if he would not:)
--- newidder <N.E.Widder@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >===== Original Message From
> foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =====
> >Personally me, I am Bulgarian. First: The Balkans
> are
> >not "area" or "region". This is one of those matrix
> >like that of the nationalism, which the west
> >constructed and applied to us, and then claim it is
> a
> >definition they found in the nature of our
> existence.
> >Isn't that so much Foucauldian?
>
> Actually, it is rather un-Foucauldian. Foucault
> would never accept the idea
> that nationalism was somehow unilaterally imposed by
> "the West" on "everyone
> else." It is inconsistent with his idea of power
> relations.
>
> Your casual use of 'us' is also un-Foucauldian.
>
> Nathan
>
> Dr. Nathan Widder
> Lecturer in Political Theory
> University of Exeter
> Department of Politics
> Amory Building
> Rennes Drive
> Exeter EX4 4RJ
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183
> Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305
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--- newidder <N.E.Widder@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >===== Original Message From
> foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =====
> >Personally me, I am Bulgarian. First: The Balkans
> are
> >not "area" or "region". This is one of those matrix
> >like that of the nationalism, which the west
> >constructed and applied to us, and then claim it is
> a
> >definition they found in the nature of our
> existence.
> >Isn't that so much Foucauldian?
>
> Actually, it is rather un-Foucauldian. Foucault
> would never accept the idea
> that nationalism was somehow unilaterally imposed by
> "the West" on "everyone
> else." It is inconsistent with his idea of power
> relations.
>
> Your casual use of 'us' is also un-Foucauldian.
>
> Nathan
>
> Dr. Nathan Widder
> Lecturer in Political Theory
> University of Exeter
> Department of Politics
> Amory Building
> Rennes Drive
> Exeter EX4 4RJ
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183
> Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305
> http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
>
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