Dear List Members:
I will be attending a graduate seminar on global transformations at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor this coming year. And I'm thinking of
working on the relationship between the intellectual and globalization
(whatever the "intellectual" and "globalization" mean here) in the seminar;
for instance, what can/should intellectuals do within this "globalizing"
world? So, if you know any articles or/and books written by "public
intellectuals" where they discuss the relationship between globalization and
intellectuals, please let me know.
I know that Foucault and Bourdieu regard the task of the intellectual is to
un-cover domination at the level of re-presentations. Bourdieu tireless
points out that struggles in the world are always struggles over
re-presentations of the world at the same time (i.e., "truth is
antagonistic"). And Foucault also argues "the essential political problem
for the intellectual is... that of ascertaining the possibility of
constituting a new politics of truth" (1980:133). But, I don't know whether
these thinkers have ever explicitly linked this task of the intellectual to
the context of globalization. (I didn't find Acts of Resistance very
useful.)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Hiro
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I will be attending a graduate seminar on global transformations at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor this coming year. And I'm thinking of
working on the relationship between the intellectual and globalization
(whatever the "intellectual" and "globalization" mean here) in the seminar;
for instance, what can/should intellectuals do within this "globalizing"
world? So, if you know any articles or/and books written by "public
intellectuals" where they discuss the relationship between globalization and
intellectuals, please let me know.
I know that Foucault and Bourdieu regard the task of the intellectual is to
un-cover domination at the level of re-presentations. Bourdieu tireless
points out that struggles in the world are always struggles over
re-presentations of the world at the same time (i.e., "truth is
antagonistic"). And Foucault also argues "the essential political problem
for the intellectual is... that of ascertaining the possibility of
constituting a new politics of truth" (1980:133). But, I don't know whether
these thinkers have ever explicitly linked this task of the intellectual to
the context of globalization. (I didn't find Acts of Resistance very
useful.)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Hiro
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