Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:41:33 -0600 From: Archer <Archer-AT-mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Truth (was: Discursive formations contra Ideology) Here is a fascinating quote on this subject: "I am fully aware that I have never written anything other than fictions. For all that, I would not want to say that they are outside truth. It seems possible to me to make fiction work within truth, to induce truth effects within a fictional discourse, and in some way make the discourse of truth arouse, 'fabricate' something which does not as yet exist, thus 'fiction' something. One 'fictions' history starting from a political reality that renders it true, one 'fictions' a politics that doesn't as yet exist starting from an historial truth." Foucault 1979, "Interview with Lucette Finas" Perhaps this is the same quote that is at the center of the "Foucault-wrote-fictions" discussion. What I find particularly interesting about this quote, however, is not that he wrote fictions, but the politics of "fictioning something". Matt Archer
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