From: tony.m.roberts-AT-nhmccd.edu
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 23:23:29 -0600
Subject: hello out there


I'm new here. My name is Tony Michael Roberts and I am an adjunct teaching 
psychology at Kingwood College. My degree is in educational psychology and I 
tend to interprete Foucault as a philosopher of education more focused on how 
we should teach than on what we should teach. Education should make a person 
skeptical of the conventional wisdom or common sense of his or her particular 
cultural time and place. This is important because freedom most be practiced in 
thought before it can be put into action. I think Foucault would agree with 
Michael Calvin McGee that we live in a society where what we can do is not 
limited directly so much as indirectly through limits on what we can think, 
imagine or "know" imposed by thinking, imagining and knowing within the limits 
of what goes without saying where we are. Where we are is inside a regime of 
power which does not generate resistence precisely because the regime is 
ubiquitous, without horizon and, therefor, invisible. The first stage in 
resistence is imagining the impossible of desire as a zone of potential 
existing beyond the horizon of what goes without saying here and now. Learning 
to question what goes without saying, to see what passes for normal as quaint 
or perverse, is the first step to personal freedom and social transformation. I 
know a little Foucault and I'm here to learn more. Turnip-witted rantings like 
the above are my attempt to provoke one or more kind souls into educating me 
further.   
                     Any Comments?
                        Tony Michael Roberts