At 11:29 AM 6/4/2004 +1000, you wrote:
>There is indeed quite a serious quandry surrounding this text, or rather
>the Foucault Live version of it.
>According to Richard A. Lynch's awesome bibliography of Foucault's shorter
>works (available here: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/lynch.html), this
>article corresponds to #330 in Dits et Ecrits.
>The problem with the Foucault Live version is that it is substantially
>different from the other versions. It was originally, according to Dits et
>Ecrits published in English, in Telos, although of course that was in
>translation. That article is a translated version of #330 in Dits et
>Ecrits (or quite possibly vice versa). The Foucault Live article differs
>substantially from either of them, having material not contained in
>either. Its cited source is the German translation of the interview (I
>think it is an interview) in Spuren.
>This all came to my attention surrounding a quote in Judith Butler's last
>article about Foucault in Radical Philosophy which she based a lot of her
>argument on which is to be found in the Foucault Live version but not in
>the original Telos article or other versions.
>
>Mark Kelly
>--
>PhD candidate
>Department of Philosophy
>University of Sydney
Dear Mark,
Thanks so much. I feel like I put my foot in the poo on this one, but your
info is very helpful. Might the snag have something to do with (past)
editorial practices as Semiotext(e)? Just a thought...
Sincerely,
Charles J. Stivale
>There is indeed quite a serious quandry surrounding this text, or rather
>the Foucault Live version of it.
>According to Richard A. Lynch's awesome bibliography of Foucault's shorter
>works (available here: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/lynch.html), this
>article corresponds to #330 in Dits et Ecrits.
>The problem with the Foucault Live version is that it is substantially
>different from the other versions. It was originally, according to Dits et
>Ecrits published in English, in Telos, although of course that was in
>translation. That article is a translated version of #330 in Dits et
>Ecrits (or quite possibly vice versa). The Foucault Live article differs
>substantially from either of them, having material not contained in
>either. Its cited source is the German translation of the interview (I
>think it is an interview) in Spuren.
>This all came to my attention surrounding a quote in Judith Butler's last
>article about Foucault in Radical Philosophy which she based a lot of her
>argument on which is to be found in the Foucault Live version but not in
>the original Telos article or other versions.
>
>Mark Kelly
>--
>PhD candidate
>Department of Philosophy
>University of Sydney
Dear Mark,
Thanks so much. I feel like I put my foot in the poo on this one, but your
info is very helpful. Might the snag have something to do with (past)
editorial practices as Semiotext(e)? Just a thought...
Sincerely,
Charles J. Stivale