Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:03:06 -0500
From: jpgustaf-AT-facstaff.wisc.edu (ruth gustafson)
Subject: Jbutler and Foucault


I am reading Butler and I came across that idea---but I can't get very far
with it except that Foucault does seem to privilege or essentialize some
elements of his framework but this has been said before in that he makes
some structure of power-knowledge.  I am very interested in  how discourse
travels, through what institutions and nexi so I find Foucault's
'structure' helpful. But at the same time I am looking into discourses of
the imaginary and how tht may or may not be colonized by other discourses
which is I think what Butler examines, in part, in Bodies that matter.  Can
one invent a liberated, maybe better to say undisciplined voice?  Anyone?
Ruthg

Ruth Gustafson