From: "Hiro Sait" <hirosophy-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: globalization and intellectuals
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:58:14 -0400


Dear List Members:

I will be attending a graduate seminar on global transformations at the 
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor this coming year. And I'm thinking of 
working on the relationship between the intellectual and globalization 
(whatever the "intellectual" and "globalization" mean here) in the seminar; 
for instance, what can/should intellectuals do within this "globalizing" 
world? So, if you know any articles or/and books written by "public 
intellectuals" where they discuss the relationship between globalization and 
intellectuals, please let me know.

I know that Foucault and Bourdieu regard the task of the intellectual is to 
un-cover domination at the level of re-presentations. Bourdieu tireless 
points out that struggles in the world are always struggles over 
re-presentations of the world at the same time (i.e., "truth is 
antagonistic"). And Foucault also argues "the essential political problem 
for the intellectual is... that of ascertaining the possibility of 
constituting a new politics of truth" (1980:133). But, I don't know whether 
these thinkers have ever explicitly linked this task of the intellectual to 
the context of globalization. (I didn't find Acts of Resistance very 
useful.)

Thanks a lot in advance,
Hiro



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