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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Mark Kelly <mkel0839@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Mark Kelly <mkel0839@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
>
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