Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 11:05:36 +1000 From: S.Wilcox-AT-mailbox.uq.oz.au (Shane Wilcox) Subject: Re: Foucault on power A quick response (or perhaps a question) to John Ransom-- Does it make sense to say on the one hand that there is no capital-P "Power", but only specific, situated power-relations, and on the other to say that in all Foucault's works, which involve the unravelling of the workings of power in those situations, power is always the same thing? Under certain circumstances I can see the value of asserting this--when one is faced with a state mechanism that has stacked the means for manoeuvering within a particular relationship entirely in its favour (a comparatively rare situation)--but generally, I think this is somewhat misleading. Interested in your response-- Shane _______________________ Shane Wilcox Department of English University of Queensland Brisbane Q 4072 Australia ------------------
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