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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 01:23:39 -0700 (MST)
From: steven meinking <steven.meinking-AT-m.cc.utah.edu>
To: Foucault List <foucault-AT-world.std.com>
Subject: Damiens and Tennessee



What Landis stated in his last post, if true, is somewhat startling.  
Have the configurations of the networks of power in America transformed in a 
new way that re-encompasses elements present in the sovereign display of 
power?  The question is scary.  Considering the popular claim that we 
live in a democracy I am baffled in my ability to account for the 
process of change that supports a resemblance or similarity between the 
syntheses of the American citizenry and the sovereign.  The sovereign 
king was a definite and distinct material composition, whereas the polis 
is a more abstract and scattered composition.  I am puzzled.  Continue 
the excellent discussion.

Yours in discourse,

Steven Meinking
The University Of Utah
steven.meinking-AT-m.cc.utah.edu

   

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