> Below is a quote of the month from Clare O'Farrell's site - anyone fancy
> interpreting it? Why does he reject ideology but nevertheless punctuates
his
> discourse with the term ideological/ideology?
>
> Anthony
What? Didn't we just discuss this quote for ages? The reasons why Foucault
rejects ideology are oft-stated and not at all tenebrous: it implies, on the
one hand, the possibility scientific knowledge which is not ideological, and
on the other it implies a superstructural relation of ideology to what is
really going on at the level of class, say.
The real question is what Foucault is doing rejecting his own concept of
power-knowledge in favour of governmentality. It seems to me that this move
is similar to his rejection of ideology in that his rejection of ideology
involves taking certain cues from ideology critique, namely the way in which
it traces discourses to hidden origins which have to do with power, and
improves upon it by understanding that we cannot simply reduce
discourse/knowlege in this way. Similarly, governmentality is an
acknowledgement that the reality is more complex than the concept of
power-knowledge allows for.
Mark
Stuart - was very pleased and not at all annoyed by the wide dissemination
of the Foucault Studies CFP. Thanks for the clarification regarding
deadlines.