I gave Tony Blair a three when he was first elected - it soon dropped into minus figures...
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> From: aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:22:46 -0600
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Foucault and Obama
>
> three as in what?
> three out of five or out of 10?
> I think I missed the joke lol
> pardon my ignorance.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Timothy O'Leary <autrement@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Chetan,
>>
>> One place to start would be Foucault's discussion of the election of
>> Francois Mitterand in 1981, the first left(ist) President of France in
>> many
>> decades.
>>
>> See: "So is it important to think?", EW3, p.454ff
>>
>> On the other hand, one could take the route that Martin Hardie, with his
>> tongue firmly in cheek, has suggested on a different topic, and say that
>> Foucault would have given Obama... a three.
>>
>> Timothy
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> So I know this is completely random, but since we know that Foucault
>>> was
>>> intending to move to California (at least I think he was) before his
>> death
>>> came into the picture, and considering (without AIDS of course, purely
>>> theoretical) he lived through 2008, what do you think he would have had
>> to
>>> say about the presidential election and Obama's rise to power?
>>> Do you think he would have been positive, negative or ambivalent?
>>>
>>> I ask because I read an interesting yet rare piece by Judith Butler on
>>> Obama's victory taking a guarded approach yet appreciating its apparent
>>> significance. I'm not trying to equivocate both thinkers, but I have an
>>> inkling Foucault would have had a similar if not identical opinion, had
>> he
>>> lived to the present.
>>> Here's Butler's article:
>>>
>>>
>> http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2008/11/uncritical-exuberance-judith-butlers-take-on-obama.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chetan Vemuri
>>> West Des Moines, IA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:22:46 -0600
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Foucault and Obama
>
> three as in what?
> three out of five or out of 10?
> I think I missed the joke lol
> pardon my ignorance.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Timothy O'Leary <autrement@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Chetan,
>>
>> One place to start would be Foucault's discussion of the election of
>> Francois Mitterand in 1981, the first left(ist) President of France in
>> many
>> decades.
>>
>> See: "So is it important to think?", EW3, p.454ff
>>
>> On the other hand, one could take the route that Martin Hardie, with his
>> tongue firmly in cheek, has suggested on a different topic, and say that
>> Foucault would have given Obama... a three.
>>
>> Timothy
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> So I know this is completely random, but since we know that Foucault
>>> was
>>> intending to move to California (at least I think he was) before his
>> death
>>> came into the picture, and considering (without AIDS of course, purely
>>> theoretical) he lived through 2008, what do you think he would have had
>> to
>>> say about the presidential election and Obama's rise to power?
>>> Do you think he would have been positive, negative or ambivalent?
>>>
>>> I ask because I read an interesting yet rare piece by Judith Butler on
>>> Obama's victory taking a guarded approach yet appreciating its apparent
>>> significance. I'm not trying to equivocate both thinkers, but I have an
>>> inkling Foucault would have had a similar if not identical opinion, had
>> he
>>> lived to the present.
>>> Here's Butler's article:
>>>
>>>
>> http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2008/11/uncritical-exuberance-judith-butlers-take-on-obama.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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"
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
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> world"
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