Hi Nick,
many thanks for the high praise you heap on my work.
Regarding the questions you raise at the end regarding Hardt and Negri
and Deleuze and Guattari – well, I have to plead some ignorance myself
in relation to the last pair, but I take it the big difference is that
they all make a distinction between constituted/constitutive power,
between potentas/potentia, pouvoir/puissance – that I don't think one
finds in Foucault. What one does have in Foucault is a
power/resistance distinction, which fulfils a similar function, but
which I don't think is the same thing – you'll understand this perhaps
when you get to the chapter on resistance.
Best,
Mark
Mark Kelly
Lecturer in Philosophy
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/STAFF/MarkKelly.htm
many thanks for the high praise you heap on my work.
Regarding the questions you raise at the end regarding Hardt and Negri
and Deleuze and Guattari – well, I have to plead some ignorance myself
in relation to the last pair, but I take it the big difference is that
they all make a distinction between constituted/constitutive power,
between potentas/potentia, pouvoir/puissance – that I don't think one
finds in Foucault. What one does have in Foucault is a
power/resistance distinction, which fulfils a similar function, but
which I don't think is the same thing – you'll understand this perhaps
when you get to the chapter on resistance.
Best,
Mark
Mark Kelly
Lecturer in Philosophy
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Middlesex University
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/STAFF/MarkKelly.htm