Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:30:00 -0500
From: tomdill-AT-wc.stephens.edu (TOM DILLINGHAM)
Subject: Re: Silence


"not every defeat or retreat can be read as a 'victory.' But *some*
can."
Let me suggest a superb study by John R. Hall called _Gone From the
Promised Land_ in which he examines the Jonestown suicides as an
example of "revolutionary suicide" or revolutionary refusal.  The 
book is controversial but certainly addresses the issues better than
either _Thelma and Louise_ ("suicide" as a kind of throwaway orgasm
masquerading as revolutionary refusal) or Heaven's Gate (escapism
elevated to media event).
I am not at all sure, however, that Hall's approach would fit with
anything Foucaultian.
Tom Dillingham