[lbo-talk] a poe moe and da poe moes

[Tahir Wood]

Absolutely not. In History of Sexuality, he argues that the creation of
stable sexual categories is a product of power relations. For Foucault,
that's not intrinsically bad; in fact, he used those sexual categories
to define himself as a gay man. The point here is that power relations
produce things: types of people, social institutions, discourse. Making
a moral judgement about the things produced by power relations isn't
really interesting to Foucault. 
Miles 

OK so now we know that what it is that produces things is power. As I
pointed out in another message, we could maybe have thought that its was
some other abstraction, like 'life', 'vitality', 'force',
'exploitation', or 'rationality' -- just name your favourite one.
Doesn't it ever occur that a proposition like "power relations produce
things" is true at such a high level of generality that it is totally
vacuous? How would you go about disproving or even arguing against such
a thing? OK so the proposition must be 'true' then, so what? Why is
arriving at this point an advance? An advance over what?
Tahir
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