Power

Kelley jimmyjames at softhome.net
Wed Dec 4 22:28:05 PST 2002


At 09:21 PM 12/4/02 -0800, Ian Murray wrote:


>Whoa, that's one heck of an inductive leap from a small sample size.
>Subjectivities are both cause and effect, no? Doesn't Madison Avenue love
>Goffman too? It's not that Goffman is wrong, it's that his and others work
>affords the opportunity to turn people into black boxes/zombies; a plug
>and play theory of selfhood. Individuals and groups/classes are capable of
>creating subjectivities/modes of intentionality that afford breaking out
>of their institutional roles, no? Or is that something that's caught up in
>"the law of unintended consequences"?
>
>Ian

if that's what you think goffman is saying, NO, that's not it.

Kelley

foucault wasn't saying that about power, either.



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