I would like to second this interpretation and ask that we please do not lash
out at one another, particularly without careful reading.
Ian
Quoting "ljgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ljgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>
>
> 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
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >
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> 526 John Watson Hall
> Queen's University, Kingston, ON
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out at one another, particularly without careful reading.
Ian
Quoting "ljgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ljgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>
>
> 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
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> website: http://www.queensu.ca/english/smith.html
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