From: atefeho-AT-vms2.macc.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:22:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Foucault and the Environment? How F.'s comment on Iran's rev. can be related to environment? I am really preoccupied by his position on Iran. Does anybody have any texts on this subject? I would appreciate the info. Thanks Atefeh At 05:28 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Robert L. Behrens wrote: > > >On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, brian mcbride wrote: > >> Just wondering if anyone out there in the rather silent Foucault land knew >> of any discussion of a Foucauldian approach to the environment. How about, >> maybe a discussion of Nietzsche's writing on nature? I'm trying to think >> how power/knowledge might specifically operate in environmental discourse. >> I can understand how present environmental discourse might serve as a >> quasi-scientific body of knowledge, > > I might suggest looking at some of Foucault's comments on Iran and how >the spriritual/political movement there was the driving force in radical >change in that country. >RB > > > > but I'm wondering what space of >> resistance exists for an environmental crisis which seems to be seen as >> largely a by-product of capitalism and the fetishism of consumption. In >> other words, I need help understanding how Foucault's analysis of power in >> discursive formations can be utilized to understand environmental >> destruction AND to orient people towards some alternative. >> >> feel no harm... >> >> > > Az Khak Bar'amadim-o- Bar Khak Shodym
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