[lbo-talk] note of thanks

[wrobert at uci.edu]

In this regard, I thought something Paul Rabinow said at a (otherwise very
forgettable) talk on the late Foucault applies.  A student asked a
question about resisting biopower, and Rabinow noted that Foucault wasn't
against biopower per se, rather he noted that it was a neutral term.  He
went on to note that forms of biopower such as health care and social
security are both beneficial and forms of biopower (or the biopolitical)
robert wood


> On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
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>> the inescapable system lying behind everything
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> 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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