That is true. The subject does function in many ways across the span
of his work.
But I don't know if it can be reducible to it?
I prefer to think of his work up to his death as still in being in an
evolving state, an evolution that was tragically cut short.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Douglas Olena <doug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Chetan,
>
> I think his last word is his best considered one.
>
> His quest for knowledge about the subject is the most important
> eventually for him.
>
> Doug
>
> -----
> Douglas Olena
> doug@xxxxxxxxx
> http://olena.com/wordpress1
> 417-887-0332
> -----
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Chetan Vemuri wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't think there really is anything such as a
>> "Foucauldian dictum", though there can be various "dictums" (that
>> sentence from AK being one of them).
>> I don't think there is really one singularly powerful sentence of his
>> that sums up his entire work. Unless if you count "all of my work has
>> been about the subject" or some such thing he said. But that was more
>> reflective really. He also said "all of my work has been about power
>> relations" 10 years earlier too.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Douglas Olena <doug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On "monuments:"
>>>
>>> Foucault Live: p. 40
>>>
>>> Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: pp. 309-10, 370, 389
>>>
>>> Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics: p. xvii
>>>
>>> Quote:
>>> "History is that which transforms documents into monuments."
>>> Archaeology of Knowledge, Pantheon, 1972, p. 7.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Douglas Olena
>>> doug@xxxxxxxxx
>>> http://olena.com/wordpress1
>>> 417-887-0332
>>> -----
>>>
>>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Kevin Turner wrote:
>>>
>>>> i don't have my books with me, but it sounds life something from
>>>> 'nietzsche, genealogy, history' which is in both the foucault
>>>> reader, and in power: essential works vol. 3
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> kevin.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: unkl_spin@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Sent: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:24:39 +0000 (GMT)
>>>>> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [Foucault-L] Foucaultian dictum
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>
>>>>> Today someone mentioned the Foucaultian dictum to me: "Power lies
>>>>> in
>>>>> monuments and documents."
>>>>>
>>>>> Do these words come directly from his own work? If so, does anyone
>>>>> have a
>>>>> direct reference to one of his works where this appears? If not,
>>>>> does
>>>>> anyone know where this dictum appears in the secondary literature?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Charles Villet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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of his work.
But I don't know if it can be reducible to it?
I prefer to think of his work up to his death as still in being in an
evolving state, an evolution that was tragically cut short.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Douglas Olena <doug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Chetan,
>
> I think his last word is his best considered one.
>
> His quest for knowledge about the subject is the most important
> eventually for him.
>
> Doug
>
> -----
> Douglas Olena
> doug@xxxxxxxxx
> http://olena.com/wordpress1
> 417-887-0332
> -----
>
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Chetan Vemuri wrote:
>
>> Personally, I don't think there really is anything such as a
>> "Foucauldian dictum", though there can be various "dictums" (that
>> sentence from AK being one of them).
>> I don't think there is really one singularly powerful sentence of his
>> that sums up his entire work. Unless if you count "all of my work has
>> been about the subject" or some such thing he said. But that was more
>> reflective really. He also said "all of my work has been about power
>> relations" 10 years earlier too.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Douglas Olena <doug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On "monuments:"
>>>
>>> Foucault Live: p. 40
>>>
>>> Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: pp. 309-10, 370, 389
>>>
>>> Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics: p. xvii
>>>
>>> Quote:
>>> "History is that which transforms documents into monuments."
>>> Archaeology of Knowledge, Pantheon, 1972, p. 7.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Douglas Olena
>>> doug@xxxxxxxxx
>>> http://olena.com/wordpress1
>>> 417-887-0332
>>> -----
>>>
>>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Kevin Turner wrote:
>>>
>>>> i don't have my books with me, but it sounds life something from
>>>> 'nietzsche, genealogy, history' which is in both the foucault
>>>> reader, and in power: essential works vol. 3
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> kevin.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: unkl_spin@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Sent: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:24:39 +0000 (GMT)
>>>>> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [Foucault-L] Foucaultian dictum
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all
>>>>>
>>>>> Today someone mentioned the Foucaultian dictum to me: "Power lies
>>>>> in
>>>>> monuments and documents."
>>>>>
>>>>> Do these words come directly from his own work? If so, does anyone
>>>>> have a
>>>>> direct reference to one of his works where this appears? If not,
>>>>> does
>>>>> anyone know where this dictum appears in the secondary literature?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Charles Villet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>>>
>>>> ____________________________________________________________
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chetan Vemuri
>> West Des Moines, IA
>> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
>> (319)-512-9318
>> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change
>> the world"
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"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the world"