File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1998/foucault.9807, message 91


From: embuck1-AT-pop.uky.edu
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:39:07 -0400
Subject: illegality and intolerability


I guess I did not say enough about these two concepts to draw any response.
Foucault is often accused of critiquing power and institutions, but of never
providing a constructive alternative.  In Discipline and Punish, Foucault
very briefly discusses illegality, almost in a tone of advocating deliberate
illegality to overcome the application of disciplinary correction.  I say
"almost" because I am not yet sure he did advocate such an approach.  In an
interview in Power/Knowledge, he mentions the Gulag question in terms of
intolerability.  Is this an inchoate tool for resistance?  This is the sort
of thing I am trying to work out.  Has anyone seen any work on these areas?
Can you point me to other mentions of them in Foucault?

Thanks

Eric


   

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