From: "JONATHAN RUBIN" <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Foucault and the body
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 02:17:52 PDT


Flora,
I read Athusser ages ago, before I started reading Foucault but I 
thought that the main difference between him and Foucault was that 
Foucault as well as dumping repression in favour of the productive power 
of power, also dumps ideology for discursive formuations / statements. 
I've lost my copy of I&ISA and I can't even remember where I originally 
got it from. Where can I find a copy of it? has anybody found a copy on 
the web? as I would like to have another look at it.
I think you're probably right about the shift, even if they describe it 
v. differently. RSA = spectacular royal power and ISA = ? well a big 
problem here is that Foucault is *not* a theorist of *State* apparatuses 
for all the well known reasons - not least 'cos May 68 through all the 
ISAs into turmoil and yet still people did not break free.
Jon.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Flora P. H. Ni" <phni-AT-simon.pu.edu.tw>
To: "'foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu'"
	 <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Foucault and the body
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:36:13 +0800
Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu

To Rachel, Chad, and Morten,

Thank you all for the info concerning Postmodern Culture.

Any of you interested in the similarity or difference between Althusser's ISAs and Foucault's power theory?  I take that Foucault's rupture apropos of his development of power theory from repressive hypothesis to a discursive perspective seems to parallel Althusser's change in replacing RSA (repressive state apparatus) with ISAs (ideological state apparatus).  This is the topic of a paper I am working on. Welcome any comment and suggestion.

Flora
Dep. of English
Providence University
Taiwan 



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