From: "Tai-Won Kim" <ktaiwon-AT-ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: ???
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:06:41 -0500


A good example to discuss with regard to this issue--"silence and power"--
might be Sir Thomas More and his conflict with Henry VIII.

Tai-Won

-----Original Message-----
From: heidi rimke <hrimke-AT-ccs.carleton.ca>
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: ???


>
>Hi Clare,
>
>good to see that others are present! i was beginning to wonder...
>
>Interesting reply. But wouldn't you agree that governing the self through
>and into a mode of silence in order to avoid becoming "a confessing
>animal" is too an effect of power? Is it actually possible to escape
>effects of power? Is silencing or removing the self from some forum a form
>of resistence to the subjugating forces and effects of the confession or
>another subtle form of domination and subjection as a result of it???
>
>heidi
>
>On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Clare O'Farrell wrote:
>
>> Heidi
>>
>> >anyone out there?
>>
>> I've noticed it's been rather quiet recently!! Perhaps people are taking
>> Foucault's words to heart on the subject of the confessing subject and
>> wish to escape the effects of power by remaining silent! :-)
>>
>> Clare
>>
>> Clare O'Farrell
>> email:c_ofarrell-AT-hotmail.com
>> web page: http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/
>>
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