On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:31 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.
Maybe I was a bit too telegraphic in my remark. I meant that Foucault
was already critical of discourse of gay rights in ways that
anticipate the work of Jasbir K. Puar and Joseph Massad among others.
Yoshie
> 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.
Maybe I was a bit too telegraphic in my remark. I meant that Foucault
was already critical of discourse of gay rights in ways that
anticipate the work of Jasbir K. Puar and Joseph Massad among others.
Yoshie