You're not getting it Miles. My objection is not to the notion that there are social structures that operate independently of any individual (duh). My objection is to the notion that there is ONE structure, with nothing outside it, that determines everything, with no input from anything outside the structure. Such as, Communists and Christians riding freedom busses. Your immediate recation was to assert that the freedom bus riding was really, despite the beliefs of the people on the busses, all about reinscribing relations of power inside the structure. That they might have been acting outside the structure does not seem to be conceivable to you.
> At 05:03 PM 4/12/2009, Miles Jackson
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> > This is an apt illustration of the disciplinary silos
> in academe. The notion that there are social
> structures that operate independently of any individual is a
> fundamental idea covered in any Soc 101 class. In this
> respect, Foucault's work is almost banal sociology. It
> fascinates me that a fundamental principle in one academic
> discipline is construed by someone trained in another
> discipline as outrageous solipsism.
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> > Miles
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