Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:26:56 -0500 From: twilson-AT-itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Thomas A. Wilson) Subject: Foucault's biography What I find particularly interesting in this discussion of Foucault's biography as a pertinent context in which to read his writings, is that it seems to elevate this particular man's life in relation to his utterances to a level that we rarely see in Foucault's own work. Foucault's analyses of discourses (at least in his archaeological mode), rarely examined the biographies of the persons who uttered statements that were critical to specific discourses. Indeed, he seemed more inclined toward fracturing particular subjects/persons, by decentering their power to have complete control over the meaning/s of their own utterances. Foucault's sexual activities, as a particular genre of signification, certainly have an impact on the formation of a non-/anti-/a-heterosexual discourse on human sexuality, but I fail to see that this particular and situated mode of enunciation should be privileged over other competing signifying practices that might be excavated from Foucault's biography. I'm sorry if this repeats an earlier posting. ------------------
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