than gay rights I mean.
He himself said, he wasnt interested in studying sexuality as it was a
rather boring topic for him, rather than the construction of it and other
such identities in the west.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I don't think Foucault was appropriating the discourse of gay rights
> towards state racism.
> His work in Society Must be Defended and the planned H of S volume on race
> was a bit more broad than that.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi <
> critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Chetan Vemuri
>> <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I think Foucault's 1976 lecture course, "Society Must be Defended" spent
>> a
>> > good deal talking about modern racism, particularly state racism. Though
>> I'm
>> > not sure that counts as a discussion of race. He did plan on writing a
>> > History of Sexuality volume dedicated to 'races' and the categorization
>> of
>> > such but that was before greco-roman ethics caught his eye.
>>
>> There are younger cultural critics whose work questions, in the spirit
>> of Foucault's unwritten work, the appropriation of discourse of gay
>> rights for the project of excluding real and imagined Muslim
>> immigrants from Europe and mobilizing Westerners for the "war on
>> terror": e.g., Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism
>> in Queer Times (Duke University Press, 2007) and Joseph Massad,
>> Desiring Arabs (U of Chicago Press, 2007). Very timely.
>>
>> Yoshie
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"
He himself said, he wasnt interested in studying sexuality as it was a
rather boring topic for him, rather than the construction of it and other
such identities in the west.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I don't think Foucault was appropriating the discourse of gay rights
> towards state racism.
> His work in Society Must be Defended and the planned H of S volume on race
> was a bit more broad than that.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi <
> critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Chetan Vemuri
>> <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I think Foucault's 1976 lecture course, "Society Must be Defended" spent
>> a
>> > good deal talking about modern racism, particularly state racism. Though
>> I'm
>> > not sure that counts as a discussion of race. He did plan on writing a
>> > History of Sexuality volume dedicated to 'races' and the categorization
>> of
>> > such but that was before greco-roman ethics caught his eye.
>>
>> There are younger cultural critics whose work questions, in the spirit
>> of Foucault's unwritten work, the appropriation of discourse of gay
>> rights for the project of excluding real and imagined Muslim
>> immigrants from Europe and mobilizing Westerners for the "war on
>> terror": e.g., Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism
>> in Queer Times (Duke University Press, 2007) and Joseph Massad,
>> Desiring Arabs (U of Chicago Press, 2007). Very timely.
>>
>> Yoshie
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"