yes I thought that Mr David
But then maybe you have to jump to good old D&G ... eg Postscript on control
societies to continue the Foucault trail?
On 28 May 2010 07:37, David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Given when he died I imagine there wasn't much to say.
>
> Back in 1984 people were still getting excited over the new AT MS-DOS
> machines with two 5.25" floppy disks and even in 1987 I was informed
> in hushed tones as a new employee about the amazing 20MB hard drive
> that the big insurance company I worked for had installed and which
> they were hoping to eventually scan and store all of the insurance
> policies on! Even in 1994 the internet was a huge deal and only a
> few people I knew had access to it, generally academics using
> university infrastructure. I didn't know any undergrad students who
> had used it.
>
> Back in 1984 it was people posting modem addresses in magazines and
> communicating one-to-one as far as I can remember.
>
> So no I wouldn't expect anything in Foucault's work itself, but I'd
> be interested to see what people have done with his work since to
> discuss the matter
>
> D
>
>
> On 28/05/2010, at 6:53 AM, Thomas Lord wrote:
>
> > Did Foucault write anything about computing,
> > software, networking, and so forth? His mode
> > of analysis seems to have a lot of relevance
> > to today's Internet but I'm wondering what he
> > might have written directly about such technology.
> >
> > -t
> >
> >
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But then maybe you have to jump to good old D&G ... eg Postscript on control
societies to continue the Foucault trail?
On 28 May 2010 07:37, David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Given when he died I imagine there wasn't much to say.
>
> Back in 1984 people were still getting excited over the new AT MS-DOS
> machines with two 5.25" floppy disks and even in 1987 I was informed
> in hushed tones as a new employee about the amazing 20MB hard drive
> that the big insurance company I worked for had installed and which
> they were hoping to eventually scan and store all of the insurance
> policies on! Even in 1994 the internet was a huge deal and only a
> few people I knew had access to it, generally academics using
> university infrastructure. I didn't know any undergrad students who
> had used it.
>
> Back in 1984 it was people posting modem addresses in magazines and
> communicating one-to-one as far as I can remember.
>
> So no I wouldn't expect anything in Foucault's work itself, but I'd
> be interested to see what people have done with his work since to
> discuss the matter
>
> D
>
>
> On 28/05/2010, at 6:53 AM, Thomas Lord wrote:
>
> > Did Foucault write anything about computing,
> > software, networking, and so forth? His mode
> > of analysis seems to have a lot of relevance
> > to today's Internet but I'm wondering what he
> > might have written directly about such technology.
> >
> > -t
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
>
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>