shag wrote:
>
> At 08:08 PM 7/27/2008, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >shag wrote:
> > >
> > > The link above, here's an excerpt, a summary
> > > of various thinkers on power:
> > >
> > > "Foucault argues [CLIP]For Foucault, power is not violenceviolence
> > > takes place when where the limits of power are reached. War presupposes an
> > > absence of a shared truth, while power is the setting up of shared truths
> > > in order to avoid war.
> >
> >Most of what you, MIles, & Dennis have been saying about Foucault is
> >impressive - but I hope you can give some explanation of this
> >(seemingly) self-evident nonsense -- and vicious nonsense at that.
> >
> >I won't comment further until someone expands on this point.
> >
> >Carrol
>
> :) i don't know if miles has any expertise in this area, but it's likehe
> said about another topic, it's just such an utterly banal sociological
> point, it's hard to get back to a mindset when it was not so i have a
> chance in hell of explaining it to you.
>
> you'll live, i'm sure. :)
It occured to me after posting that this was not clear. The power/violence distinction is of course commnplace (and valid). It's the shared truth as a preventive of war that strikes me as absurd.
Carrol