Re: Foucault explains what scared me about Bush yesterday

And they serach for "subject", who will be able to
"take responsibility in the court" (And that subject
must have a individual face).
But there is no individual subject. In this act are
involved large amount of people, including americans,
europeans, and so on.
But the world wants a SUBJECT to be judged.

Regards
Jivko
--- Lionel Boxer <lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was watching Bush addressing firemen in NYC
> yesterday. I was worried
> about something ... this excerpt from Frentzy (2000
> thesis York Uni Toronto)
> helps articulate my fear.
>
> 'There was some conscious planning to it: Foucault
> quotes Servan on linking
> the ideas of crime and punishment solidly and
> immediately in each mind:
> "When you have thus formed the chain of ideas in the
> heads of your citizens,
> you will then be able to pride yourselves on guiding
> them and being their
> masters. A stupid despot may constrain his slaves
> with iron chains; but a
> true politician binds them even more strongly by the
> chain of their own
> ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he
> secures the end of the
> chain; this link is all the stronger in that we do
> not know of what it is
> made and believe it to be our own work..." '
>
> American's want blood and Bush wants votes.
>
>
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