[lbo-talk] Power (Waiting for Foucault)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Jun 29 16:43:56 PDT 2008


Doug Henwood wrote:
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>
> Is this about Foucault? I could swear he wrote about prisons,
> clinics, sexuality - actual institutions, actual people with
> authority acting on actual physical bodies and subordinate
> populations. It would be a bit of "vul[g]ar Platonism" if he'd just
> riffed about Power. But he didn't. You may not like what he had to
> say, but please give some sign of having read it.
>

No! I claim no knowledge of Foucault. Based on what you write here, I must have just reached his conclusions on my own.

Carrol



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