Hi Claudius,
On Agamben we have published a paper by Suvendrini Perera in _borderlands_
drawing on his work to discuss the immigrant detention centres in Australia.
It can be read/downloaded at the following link:
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol1no1_2002/perera_camp.html
Dr. David McInerney
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "claudius" <claudius.laumanns@xxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: AW: foucault and race
> In my humble opinion Foucault doesn't speak about rascism but about state-
> racism. As Stoler points out he didn't take acount of the colonies, while
> tracing the production of biopower. As a result for Stoler race must be
seen
> as constitutive of the production of the european bourgeois self.
>
> Here is still place for Foucault's state- racism. For example 1937, they
> sterilized the descendants of french colonial soldiers from the Rheinland
> occupation. This was an effort in eugenic policies and played out racial
and
> sexual fears about men of african ancestry.
>
> I'm just reading Agamben`s "Homo Sacer I". It seems he pushes Foucault's
> acount of state racism further to his thesis, that concentration camps are
> the biopolitical pardigm of the modernity. He also traces sovereignty
among
> others to the latin law. I am astonished. Does anybody know this book?
>
> Claudius
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Margot
> Ford
> Gesendet: Samstag, 13. März 2004 03:55
> An: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: foucault and race
>
>
> I have been reading foucault for about four months now and am more and
more
> impressed with the breadth and depth of his thinking. Oh I have just
joined
> this list by the way.
>
> I am currently writing a PhD on racialised practices in a culturally
diverse
>
> setting and using genealogy, bio-power and other later stuff he wrote
about
> ethics and self so pretty much a broad sweep of his work.
>
> a couple of things first if anyone knows of writings linking race to
> Foucault I would be interested to get some references. I have read the
Anne
> Stoler book that really explains his use of race from History of sexuality
> Vol I and 'Society must be defended' so am looking for other refs besides
> that.
>
> secondly though I would be interested on people's thoughts about the
> significance of his comments about race. He picked it up and dropped
pretty
> quickly I know a Foucault trait, but does this mean he was dismisisng his
> earlier arguments? How significant is it in difference theory that he
argued
>
> that racial discourses preceded other discourse that repositioned mentally
> ill, women ect.?
>
> Margot Ford
>
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On Agamben we have published a paper by Suvendrini Perera in _borderlands_
drawing on his work to discuss the immigrant detention centres in Australia.
It can be read/downloaded at the following link:
http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol1no1_2002/perera_camp.html
Dr. David McInerney
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "claudius" <claudius.laumanns@xxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: AW: foucault and race
> In my humble opinion Foucault doesn't speak about rascism but about state-
> racism. As Stoler points out he didn't take acount of the colonies, while
> tracing the production of biopower. As a result for Stoler race must be
seen
> as constitutive of the production of the european bourgeois self.
>
> Here is still place for Foucault's state- racism. For example 1937, they
> sterilized the descendants of french colonial soldiers from the Rheinland
> occupation. This was an effort in eugenic policies and played out racial
and
> sexual fears about men of african ancestry.
>
> I'm just reading Agamben`s "Homo Sacer I". It seems he pushes Foucault's
> acount of state racism further to his thesis, that concentration camps are
> the biopolitical pardigm of the modernity. He also traces sovereignty
among
> others to the latin law. I am astonished. Does anybody know this book?
>
> Claudius
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Margot
> Ford
> Gesendet: Samstag, 13. März 2004 03:55
> An: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: foucault and race
>
>
> I have been reading foucault for about four months now and am more and
more
> impressed with the breadth and depth of his thinking. Oh I have just
joined
> this list by the way.
>
> I am currently writing a PhD on racialised practices in a culturally
diverse
>
> setting and using genealogy, bio-power and other later stuff he wrote
about
> ethics and self so pretty much a broad sweep of his work.
>
> a couple of things first if anyone knows of writings linking race to
> Foucault I would be interested to get some references. I have read the
Anne
> Stoler book that really explains his use of race from History of sexuality
> Vol I and 'Society must be defended' so am looking for other refs besides
> that.
>
> secondly though I would be interested on people's thoughts about the
> significance of his comments about race. He picked it up and dropped
pretty
> quickly I know a Foucault trait, but does this mean he was dismisisng his
> earlier arguments? How significant is it in difference theory that he
argued
>
> that racial discourses preceded other discourse that repositioned mentally
> ill, women ect.?
>
> Margot Ford
>
> _________________________________________________________________
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