From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 09:54:43 +0100 Subject: Re: Rape >Jeff writes: >"I think we have to have some real or true aspect of ourselves which power >subverts in order for their to be any punch, meaning or use to the notion >of power." > >At this point I am not prepared to respond to this claim directly, but I would >like to suggest that taking this position amounts to much more than a >modification of Foucault's arguments (or even a rejection of some of his claims >coupled with an acceptance of others). To assume that there must exist some >true aspect of ourselves that power subverts is to completely diverge with >Foucualt's claims with respect to discourse, power, and sexuality. Well since F states, everybody knows where so i won't prvide a ref, that he is primarily interested in the way 'human beings are made subjects' then might it not be that he is referring to an inner essence prior to construction - a human being no less. Moreover, F's attempt to distance himself from the so-called liberal conception of power is; (i) questionable, I would argue that F has is own hidden 'repressive hypothesis; (ii) if he did, what on earth are all the Foucaultites doing? Why is anyone bothering, what is the subject that your all so concerned with? What is it you all so passionately care about? There is no point in saying this should be otherwise, let's just leave everything as it is. A lack of a normative standpoint, even more virulent than that denied by positivism Been there done it, got the tee-shirt. Boring. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- ******************************************************************* "We stand at the end of the age of reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising. (Adolf Hitler) ******************************************************************* Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA --------------------------------------------------------
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