[lbo-talk] internally riven

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Apr 13 20:01:25 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] internally riven


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> The "outside" of Derrida or Foucault (most specifically Derrida, of whom I
> have much more knowledge than I have of Foucault, and it is possible I may
> be reading the former to some extent into the latter) is the point at
> which the system breaks down or contradicts itself. It is a feature of the
> structure itself. It is not a real "outside," like, say, a Kantian
> noumenon is outside.
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> --- On Mon, 4/13/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] internally riven
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 6:47 PM
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>> On Apr 13, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
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>> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>> >> 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,
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>> > If you think Foucault wasn't concerned with outsides,
>> you really do
>> > need to stop typing and read the guy.
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>> But that would complicate things enormously! Strongly
>> worded opinions might have to be revised. Best stick with
>> the straw man.
>>
>> Doug
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