From: "Jean-Marc Gorelick" <jmg111-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Ever-Present Resistance and Cryptonormativity Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 10:30:30 PDT Dan Smith writes: >To put it another way, *maybe* Deleuze's book on Foucault isn't Deleuze >finally getting Foucault "right" (ie, getting away from a reductive reading >of Foucault) >but rather Deleuze enveloping and deploying yet another thinker within >his own "image of thought." Any comments you have would be appreciated. I agree with you, but I don't see this for cause of alarm. There is no purely neutral objective reading of Foucault which dispenses with the reader's politico-historical position. It would be a mistake to wish Deleuze could give an innocent reading of Foucault without his own "image of thought". Deleuze can't step outside of his position into some ahistorical vantage point and describe Foucault for us perfectly and completely - no one can do that. Hence the reason for the multiple readings and appropriations that Foucault's texts take after their dissemnination (see Death of the Author). -JMG ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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