Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 14:43:10 EST From: Ken <KENNETH-AT-VMESA.UERJ.BR> Subject: Re: MacKinnon and Foucault On Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:21:52 GMT Ken J. McPhail said: >Is all power essentially 'bad'.....Did F think that all power was >'bad' > >Ken As far as I can tell, no. I wouldn't expect such moral wording from Foucault. In an interview, if I'm not mistaken, he expressly criticized some versions of marxism for conceiving a unitary, monopolistic control of power, to which he opposed his microphisics of power. It could thus be "good" or "bad" depending on who exerts or suffers consequences. BTW, using the argument that "power is everywhere, so it's nowhere" against Foucault's work seems to me stupid beyond the need to deserve an answer. Yours, Ken (another one :) ) ------------------------------------------------- Kenneth Rochel de Camargo, Jr. MD PhD Technical Coordinator - UnATI (Old Age Open University) Research Associate - Instituto de Medicina Social UERJ (Rio de Janeiro State U.) - Brazil Bitnet: kenneth at bruerj.bitnet Internet: kenneth at vmesa.uerj.br ------------------
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