From: Examhell-AT-aol.com Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 07:35:42 EDT Subject: Re: reification, agency, Habermas Matthew, Your juxtapositioning of Marx, Foucault, and Habermas was helpful to me. I have only one question. It sounds as this movement you speak of as "colonization" involves one discourse overcoming another (disciplinary apparati colonize juridical apparati, for example). Although I am not versed in Habermas' thought, I do have a feeling that if my understanding of your use of "colonization" is adequate, then something other than a discourse overcoming another discourse is at work in both Marx and Foucault. I am under the impression that one discourses emerges from within another (Socialism out of Capitalism or Biopolitics out of Sovereignty), and that this emergence is the 'birth" that the genealogoical method addesses. Does this have import to your comparison? How does Habermas' colonization of life world's relate to what I am speaking of as a sense of the emergence of a discourse? Chad Wilson
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