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
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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
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>
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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"