One of the things I like greatly about Foucault is that I have learned to
understand myself better. The gaze Michael Bibby introduces has intersted
me in recent years.
Being a Canadian born 5th generation Austalian it is interesting how many Australians are hostile towards their Head of State, while the full spectrum of Canadians (indigenous, traditional new Canadian franc and anglo, plus all those more recent new Canadians) tend to embrace their Head of State. The head of state of Canada is the same person as the head of state of Australia, being Queen Elizabeth II of the British Commonwealth. As a child I grew up in the shadow of a great commonwealth. Not so much the monarchy, but my Canadian maternal grandmother (who served as a nurse during WWI) and my Australian maternal grand father (who was a soldier on the western front). Growing up in Toronto during the 1960s that commonwealth was reinforced by the expanse of pink territory; our state school system was not infiltrated by the Fabian force that appears to have infected many of my Australian cousins. (I am not hostile to these Fabian, but at this point disagree with them on several points.) And during visits to my maternal grandparents in Gippsland, Australia from Toronto, Canada I was fortunate to visit many of these commonwealth nations.
My father served in the Royal Engineers 8th Army during WWII and the Royal Canadian Engineers after the war. Being raised in that shaddow, then I served in the Royal Canadian Engineers. Now I serve in the Royal Australian Engineers (primarily as a bagpiper these days, as I am 48 and beyond the soldiering and sleeping in the dirt). The badge of these three engineer corps all share the Royal Garter. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, which I was always taught means evil be to he who evil thinks. I like to look at it and do so often.
Perhaps I am caught up in this gaze of empire, but - quite frankly - I like it. Perhaps I will evolve with further influence of Foucauldian thought. Perhaps I should, but not yet.
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA - 0411267256 - lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Being a Canadian born 5th generation Austalian it is interesting how many Australians are hostile towards their Head of State, while the full spectrum of Canadians (indigenous, traditional new Canadian franc and anglo, plus all those more recent new Canadians) tend to embrace their Head of State. The head of state of Canada is the same person as the head of state of Australia, being Queen Elizabeth II of the British Commonwealth. As a child I grew up in the shadow of a great commonwealth. Not so much the monarchy, but my Canadian maternal grandmother (who served as a nurse during WWI) and my Australian maternal grand father (who was a soldier on the western front). Growing up in Toronto during the 1960s that commonwealth was reinforced by the expanse of pink territory; our state school system was not infiltrated by the Fabian force that appears to have infected many of my Australian cousins. (I am not hostile to these Fabian, but at this point disagree with them on several points.) And during visits to my maternal grandparents in Gippsland, Australia from Toronto, Canada I was fortunate to visit many of these commonwealth nations.
My father served in the Royal Engineers 8th Army during WWII and the Royal Canadian Engineers after the war. Being raised in that shaddow, then I served in the Royal Canadian Engineers. Now I serve in the Royal Australian Engineers (primarily as a bagpiper these days, as I am 48 and beyond the soldiering and sleeping in the dirt). The badge of these three engineer corps all share the Royal Garter. HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, which I was always taught means evil be to he who evil thinks. I like to look at it and do so often.
Perhaps I am caught up in this gaze of empire, but - quite frankly - I like it. Perhaps I will evolve with further influence of Foucauldian thought. Perhaps I should, but not yet.
Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA - 0411267256 - lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sustainability and leadership - see http://intergon.net
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Read The Sustainable Way: http://intergon.net.tsw
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From: michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Foucault-L] R.E. 'The gaze', and,Galtons political dream of Eugenics
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:54:59 +1000 (EST)
It has often been said that 'man falls apart if he
looks God in the face' i.e., humiliated and humbled,
shamed.
Thus far, I have had a great deal of trouble
tracking down substantial textual references,
scriptural or otherwise, which bear upon this theme
and consequently am seeking the groups help in
tracking down the same. Any (historical) material, no
matter how obscurely related, that scholars who have
taken the theme of the gaze as the thematic basis upon
which to elaborate some historico-theoretical
hypothesis might be able to furnish me with, would be
greatly appreciated (for instance, I know that the
Garter on the British royal crest, for those who can
stand to look at it for long enough to read it without
averting their gaze, reads: 'shame on him who thinks
this evil'- it, like the evil-eye of the Basilisk,
whose breath reduces stones to rubble, in effect,
kills all those who dare look upon it). (Note: we see
a strange reversal of the 'sovereign' power of the
gaze in the experience of King George the 3rd and
Francis Willis...)
Also, I am interested in tracking down anything that
Foucault, or others, might have said about Galton?s
political dream of 'eugenics' in relation to the
concept of bio-power.
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