Foucault (was Re: litcritter bashing...)

t byfield tbyfield at panix.com
Fri Oct 29 21:17:27 PDT 1999



> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:09:02 -0400
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>


> Insights:

"It was in the nineteenth century that each person began to have the right

to his little box for his little personal decomposition." --M. Foucault

"In civilizations without ships the dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police that of the corsairs." --MF

"There is an illusion that consists of the supposition that

science is grounded in the plenitude of a concrete and lived

experience; that geometry elaborates a perceived space, that

biology gives form to the intimate experience of life, or that political economy translates the processes of industrialization at the level of theoretical discourse; therefore, that the ref- erent itself contains the law of the scientific object." --MF

i can't be bothered to keep a list of his foolishness.

cheers, t



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