Thank you Stuart
My attempt effort to answer your question:
My use of dossier seems to be captured by my reading that it is an archive
... 'the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of
statements as unique events.' (AK 129)
In my research, the use of dossier refers to a report or a booklet that
provides the company's perception of an event. For example, an oil company
spews out millions of gallons of oil into the sea and they research the
event and produce a report that they circulate to demonstrate their version
of the truth. I get the impression that businesses create their own law
through these DOSSIERS.
Lionel
>From: Stuart Elden <stuart.elden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Re: A twist to dossier and gaze
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:30:32 +0100
>
>Lionel, and others
>
>I too am interested and curious as to what you mean by 'dossier'. Which
>French word are you referring to? Can you provide some citations? The ones
>that immediately spring to mind are in Herculine Barbin and I, Pierre
>Riviere - dossier as 'le dossier'.
>
>I would suggest thinking carefully about what Foucault says about the
>archive, and about the gaze. This last - le regard - should of course be
>thought more generally than the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish. There
>is a difference - and it's frequently missed - between panopticism and the
>Panopticon. Equally there is the discussion of the gaze in Birth of the
>Clinic, and in Histoire de la folie (not sure how much is retained in
>Madness and Civilisation).
>
>Here's a passage from the course summary from 1972-73 - The Punitive
>Society
>(Resume des cours, p 49):-
>
>A new optics, first: an organ of surveillance generalised and constant; all
>must be observed, seen, transmitted: organisation of a police; institution
>of a system of archives (with individual files), establishment of a
>panopticism.
>
>(my translation - the one in Essential Works Vol I suggests 'police force'
>instead of police, which is extremely misleading! Archive is translated as
>'record', and it completely omits a paragraph from lower down the page...)
>
>This would seem to link the issues you are concerned with.
>
> >The way I interpret Foucault and this interview, is that the CEO was
> >imposing his MANAGERIAL GAZE on me and making use of this report as a
> >DOSSIER.
>
>I think I'd need to hear more from you about what you think Foucault means
>by 'dossier' to comment on this interpretation.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Stuart
>
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My attempt effort to answer your question:
My use of dossier seems to be captured by my reading that it is an archive
... 'the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of
statements as unique events.' (AK 129)
In my research, the use of dossier refers to a report or a booklet that
provides the company's perception of an event. For example, an oil company
spews out millions of gallons of oil into the sea and they research the
event and produce a report that they circulate to demonstrate their version
of the truth. I get the impression that businesses create their own law
through these DOSSIERS.
Lionel
>From: Stuart Elden <stuart.elden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Re: A twist to dossier and gaze
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:30:32 +0100
>
>Lionel, and others
>
>I too am interested and curious as to what you mean by 'dossier'. Which
>French word are you referring to? Can you provide some citations? The ones
>that immediately spring to mind are in Herculine Barbin and I, Pierre
>Riviere - dossier as 'le dossier'.
>
>I would suggest thinking carefully about what Foucault says about the
>archive, and about the gaze. This last - le regard - should of course be
>thought more generally than the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish. There
>is a difference - and it's frequently missed - between panopticism and the
>Panopticon. Equally there is the discussion of the gaze in Birth of the
>Clinic, and in Histoire de la folie (not sure how much is retained in
>Madness and Civilisation).
>
>Here's a passage from the course summary from 1972-73 - The Punitive
>Society
>(Resume des cours, p 49):-
>
>A new optics, first: an organ of surveillance generalised and constant; all
>must be observed, seen, transmitted: organisation of a police; institution
>of a system of archives (with individual files), establishment of a
>panopticism.
>
>(my translation - the one in Essential Works Vol I suggests 'police force'
>instead of police, which is extremely misleading! Archive is translated as
>'record', and it completely omits a paragraph from lower down the page...)
>
>This would seem to link the issues you are concerned with.
>
> >The way I interpret Foucault and this interview, is that the CEO was
> >imposing his MANAGERIAL GAZE on me and making use of this report as a
> >DOSSIER.
>
>I think I'd need to hear more from you about what you think Foucault means
>by 'dossier' to comment on this interpretation.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Stuart
>
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