For Heidegger or Derrida, the "system" is at bottom the structure of reality, or at least reality-as-perceived, so no you can't get beyond it. All you can do is point to the "outside" in a negative-theology kind of way by showing how the system contradicts itself or is at points arbitrary or can't account for everything. Foucault I'm not so sure about since he was working on a more social level. Plus I haven't read much Foucault. But the possibility of escape from the system would kind of contradict the grim, gothic horror atmosphere of Foucaultworld with its lurid focus on MADNESS!, SEX!, and DISCIPLINED BODIES WRITHING ON THE GROUND! ;)
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] note of thanks
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:02 AM
>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > the inescapable system lying behind everything
>
> Is it The System, or just a system? There's going to be
> system in any human society, presumably some preferable to
> others. But you can't escape it because it's so much bigger
> than you.
>
> Doug
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