From: "Anonymous" <rhizome85-AT-home.com> Subject: Re: Canon Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:23:48 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. I have no response to the Elephant poem other than that I intend on reading it thoroughly a few times more so that I can absorb all of it. I personally think it's wonderful--the metaphors seem almost inexhaustible--an excellent topic of discussion indeed. Thanks for the great post :) Also--somebody post some cites! See below: >i would suggest delving into ethnographic literature. You find the themes >of those such as Foucault, Deleuze, etc but in a very applied method. >Also, >why not read things that were not necessary intended to locate themselves >anywhere, such as medical records or police documentation or some more >obscure political philosophy or even student/worker writings from the May >'68 event? I especially like the 1968 and ethnography ideas. I think everyone would be really grateful if someone could post some 5/68 cites! > Then the discussion group could investigate new ways of reading >those texts. An excellent idea as well :) I don't know that the members of the group would be particularly interested, but I know I would. > Remember: Foucault never intended on being canonicized (word?) >necessarily. His research was very specific and directed. Leave the >comfort of the canon to Derrida, who finds genealogy not in specific >research like foucault, but in Aristotle, Nietzsche and Plato. :) I think Foucault is being canonized. People like Taylor are trying to distill his philosophy down to a set of concepts and sort of inscribe him in the discipline (and also criticize him). I (while I am embarassed to say this) find obscure meditations on consciousness often more interesting than "post-structuralism's seminal work." Thanks for a WONDERFUL post!
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