So, sure - he didn't live to see the pervasive
implications of the Internet per se but a couple
of things:
1) He did live long enough to get a taste for what
computing and networking might bring (by decades)
hence my fishing for cites. That's why I asked.
2) By 1994 (per Mr. McInnerny's comment) *lots* of
undergrads were using the Internet. Big time.
I do have a distorted lens perspective of coming out of the
Carnegie Mellon University environment but at least there
and at quite a few other campuses - Internet access and use was
fairly ubiquitous almost a decade before that. The web
didn't quite yet exist although lots of people were trying
to get it started - but the 'net was in full swing on a bunch
of campuses.
I appreciate both comments and any cites that might
crop up. I'm just fishing to see if there's some stuff
I wasn't aware of in his writings.
-t
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:41 +1000, martin hardie wrote:
> 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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implications of the Internet per se but a couple
of things:
1) He did live long enough to get a taste for what
computing and networking might bring (by decades)
hence my fishing for cites. That's why I asked.
2) By 1994 (per Mr. McInnerny's comment) *lots* of
undergrads were using the Internet. Big time.
I do have a distorted lens perspective of coming out of the
Carnegie Mellon University environment but at least there
and at quite a few other campuses - Internet access and use was
fairly ubiquitous almost a decade before that. The web
didn't quite yet exist although lots of people were trying
to get it started - but the 'net was in full swing on a bunch
of campuses.
I appreciate both comments and any cites that might
crop up. I'm just fishing to see if there's some stuff
I wasn't aware of in his writings.
-t
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:41 +1000, martin hardie wrote:
> 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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> > > Foucault-L mailing list
> >
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