hey, I might be wrong but it seems to me that Arianna is saying that the
criticism often levelled at Foucault (and work that uses him)- you know the
whole nihilism charge (ie. where's the agency? where's the space for
something beyond critique) - is a "stupid question". Not what Jani has
said...
I could be wrong but that's what it looks like from here!
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!!
Linda
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From: Shannon Rose Smith 0srs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:56:38 -0400
To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] introduction
I joined this list at a time when Foucault was relatively new to me and
I had (I am sure) many "stupid questions" of my own. This is supposed
to be a community fueled by scholarly interest and curiosity and
responses such as the one below show an incredibly disrespect not only
for someone else's process of intellectual discovery but also for one
of the cornerstones of an intellectual life -- communication.
Given that last statement, I am well aware of the irony of asking to be
removed from this list, however I do not feel at home in a scholarly
community where inquiry -- in any form, whether it be from a person new
to Foucault or not -- is dismissed with such arrogance by one of its
members.
Shannon Smith
On 17-Apr-07, at 7:24 PM, Arianna wrote:
> its a stupid question, that's the answer
>
> jataseli@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I´m a PhD student (MSocSc) in the Department of Social Sciences and
>> Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland.
>>
>> My sociological research is about the history of drug addiction
>> treatments
>> in Finland from 1960´s to present day. In this genealogical study I
>> try
>> relate the changes in treatment practices to the changes of other
>> practices, be they discursive or non-discursive, that have made
>> changes in
>> treatment practices possible. So basic foucauldian stuff.
>>
>> My current interests lie in the modern concept of addiction and in the
>> "original" problematization that the emergence of this concept was
>> related
>> to in the late 18th and early 19th century. Furthermore, being a
>> student
>> of sociology I confront all the time the question "where´s the agent
>> in
>> Foucault´s thought". I´ve got a kind of a answer to this question but
>> it
>> needs more clarification.
>>
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Jani Selin
>>
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>>
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criticism often levelled at Foucault (and work that uses him)- you know the
whole nihilism charge (ie. where's the agency? where's the space for
something beyond critique) - is a "stupid question". Not what Jani has
said...
I could be wrong but that's what it looks like from here!
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!!
Linda
Original Message:
-----------------
From: Shannon Rose Smith 0srs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:56:38 -0400
To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] introduction
I joined this list at a time when Foucault was relatively new to me and
I had (I am sure) many "stupid questions" of my own. This is supposed
to be a community fueled by scholarly interest and curiosity and
responses such as the one below show an incredibly disrespect not only
for someone else's process of intellectual discovery but also for one
of the cornerstones of an intellectual life -- communication.
Given that last statement, I am well aware of the irony of asking to be
removed from this list, however I do not feel at home in a scholarly
community where inquiry -- in any form, whether it be from a person new
to Foucault or not -- is dismissed with such arrogance by one of its
members.
Shannon Smith
On 17-Apr-07, at 7:24 PM, Arianna wrote:
> its a stupid question, that's the answer
>
> jataseli@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I´m a PhD student (MSocSc) in the Department of Social Sciences and
>> Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland.
>>
>> My sociological research is about the history of drug addiction
>> treatments
>> in Finland from 1960´s to present day. In this genealogical study I
>> try
>> relate the changes in treatment practices to the changes of other
>> practices, be they discursive or non-discursive, that have made
>> changes in
>> treatment practices possible. So basic foucauldian stuff.
>>
>> My current interests lie in the modern concept of addiction and in the
>> "original" problematization that the emergence of this concept was
>> related
>> to in the late 18th and early 19th century. Furthermore, being a
>> student
>> of sociology I confront all the time the question "where´s the agent
>> in
>> Foucault´s thought". I´ve got a kind of a answer to this question but
>> it
>> needs more clarification.
>>
>>
>> Yours
>>
>> Jani Selin
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
>
Shannon Smith, PhD Candidate
Department of English
526 John Watson Hall
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
e-mail: 0srs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.queensu.ca/english/smith.html
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