File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1999/foucault.9908, message 8


Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:15:15 +0000
From: "D.H.Moldenhagen" <Dag.H.Moldenhagen-AT-rlvphs.no>
Subject: Re: Jbutler and Foucault




ruth gustafson wrote:

> 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.

Could you give a short reply by what you mean by "being imaginized". I am
interensting in how cultural body images turn into "literal images" or
"fragments of literal images" Any idea?



> Can
> one invent a liberated, maybe better to say undisciplined voice?  Anyone?
> Ruthg
>
> Ruth Gustafson




   

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