From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_A._Bov=E9?=" <bove-AT-imap.pitt.edu>
Subject: RE: "Lightning of possible storms"
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:03:34 -0400


Off the top of my head I would say the 'brief lightening flash of thought'
figure-after Nietzsche-from the essay on Deleuze, 'Theatrum Philosophicum,'
might be the reference?
	PAB

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In Jon Simons, 'Foucault and the Political', p. 85 -- in the context of his
misguided criticism of Foucault's critical ethos -- Simons speaks of
Foucault preferring the lightning flash of absolute transgression to the
less dramatic 'daylight' of continuous acts of resistance. I don't have that
book with me (just my notes) but you might look there for a reference.

Similarly, in Manfred Frank's 'What is neostructuralism?', p. 144, Frank
criticizes a passage that appears to come from 'Order of things' or possibly
'Archaeology' or 'Discourse on Language,' and quotes Foucault saying
something about "the approaching birth of a thought that has been speaking
for thousands of years without knowing what speaking is or even that it is
speaking--which is about to reapprehend itself in its entirety and to
illumine itself once more in the lightning flash of being." That really does
sound like 'OT', but I don't have my books with me so I can't track it down.

-- John

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From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:02 AM
Subject: "Lightning of possible storms"


> Greetings: I have this vague feeling, which is driving me crazy, that
> somewhere in one of Foucault's texts (interviews?) there is a line that
> goes something like "I dream of the lightning of possible storms." Does
> anyone know if this is, in fact, Foucault, or if not, who it is, and in
> either case, where it's from?
>
> Thanks muchly,
> Matthew
>
>  ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University,
Toronto---
>                          dear readers, my apologies.
>                       I'm drifting in and out of sleep.
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