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From: sbinkley-AT-pipeline.com
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:08:18 -0400
Subject: Foucault, Bourdieu and space


 
 
Gavin: 
 
I had thought of not posting this to the general list until this argument
about language dies down.  However, in the hopes of turning the topic back
to Bourdieu, I decided to post anyway.   
 
I have just joined the list, though I have been active in Bataille and
Foucault for about a year.   
 
I think your project sounds very interesting.  Over the next few months
(god willing) I will be some similar work.  I'll describe my project
briefly... 
 
 
starting with Foucault's concept of panoptic space and the body.... the
problem of an historical view of a "political economy of the body"
understood as a history of space.   
 
making the critique often made of F that his history (D&P) tends to 
emphasize dominant practices over local resistances, or the coercive
spacializing power of the panopticon in the inscription and discipline of
bodies over the disruptions, appropriations and counter-tactics of
"subjects". 
 
Balancing F's model against Bourdieu: the Kabyl house and the world
reversed is a good starting point, looking at how spacial arrangements work
to establish the body as a site of resistance.   
 
I am also looking at other frenchie critiques of F: Decerteau (check out
the F list for some discussion there) and more recently Lefebvre, both of
whom offer a critique of F's panoptic spacialization thesis.   
 
My background is historical sociology (at the New school for social
research in NYC) and this is ultimately leading to (maybe, unless I get
distracted) an historical ethnography of administrative public space,
specifically the history of the waiting room.   
 
well, that's my summer.   
 
do you know anything about Lefebvre's "production of space" as it relates
to Foucault's concept of the production of bodies in panoptic space?  
 
nice to meet ya.   
 
sam binkley
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