?It is always possible that one might speak the truth in the space of a
wild exteriority, but one is ?in the true? only by obeying the rules of a
discursive ?policing? which one has to reactivate in each of one?s
discourses. The discipline is a principle of control over the production
of discourse. The discipline fixes limits for discourse by the action of
an identity which takes the form of a permanent re-actuation of the
rules.?
What is the need to re-enact these rules, and what lack of ?agency? is at
play, for the discourse police, in speech-acts, in using words as objects,
tools, bullets, caresses, smiles, shields, carving knives? ?The problem
with power is not that it is unjust, it is that we don?t have it!? So
quite obviously to me, since by default I treat others as peers, fellow
travellers, my message to Jani was a wink, as he/she no doubt realised,
being familiar with the order of discourse.
?Desire says: ?I should not like to have to enter this risky order of
discourse; I should not like to be involved in its peremptoriness and
decisiveness; I should like it to be all around me like a calm, deep
transparence, infinitely open, where others would fit in with my
expectations, and from which truths would emerge one by one; I should only
have to let myself be carries, within it and by it, like a happy wreck?.
The institution replies: ?You should not be afraid of beginnings; we are
all here in order to show you that discourse belongs to the order of laws,
that we have long been looking after its appearances; that a place has
been made ready for it, a place which honours it but disarms it; and that
if discourse may sometimes have some power, nevertheless it is from us and
us alone that it gets it.??
It is funny that despite having published texts on this list on several
occasions, a one-liner solicited all these comments ? But how can
institutions endorse Foucault without a dose of hypocrisy and frustration?
This attitude of ?corrective intervention? belies so much anxiety ... it
is good to see, and fight against.
wild exteriority, but one is ?in the true? only by obeying the rules of a
discursive ?policing? which one has to reactivate in each of one?s
discourses. The discipline is a principle of control over the production
of discourse. The discipline fixes limits for discourse by the action of
an identity which takes the form of a permanent re-actuation of the
rules.?
What is the need to re-enact these rules, and what lack of ?agency? is at
play, for the discourse police, in speech-acts, in using words as objects,
tools, bullets, caresses, smiles, shields, carving knives? ?The problem
with power is not that it is unjust, it is that we don?t have it!? So
quite obviously to me, since by default I treat others as peers, fellow
travellers, my message to Jani was a wink, as he/she no doubt realised,
being familiar with the order of discourse.
?Desire says: ?I should not like to have to enter this risky order of
discourse; I should not like to be involved in its peremptoriness and
decisiveness; I should like it to be all around me like a calm, deep
transparence, infinitely open, where others would fit in with my
expectations, and from which truths would emerge one by one; I should only
have to let myself be carries, within it and by it, like a happy wreck?.
The institution replies: ?You should not be afraid of beginnings; we are
all here in order to show you that discourse belongs to the order of laws,
that we have long been looking after its appearances; that a place has
been made ready for it, a place which honours it but disarms it; and that
if discourse may sometimes have some power, nevertheless it is from us and
us alone that it gets it.??
It is funny that despite having published texts on this list on several
occasions, a one-liner solicited all these comments ? But how can
institutions endorse Foucault without a dose of hypocrisy and frustration?
This attitude of ?corrective intervention? belies so much anxiety ... it
is good to see, and fight against.