Re: globalization and intellectuals

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