Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:30:28 -0400
Subject: Re: what about us
From: Asher Haig <ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com>


on 10/2/00 6:20 PM, Jeremiah Luna at jeremiah.luna-AT-zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
wrote:

> Cathrine, 
> I don't understand what it is your getting at when you say that:
> "Foucault did not 'apply his theories to prison reform'" Your claim moved
> me to look into David Macey the Lives of Foucault. So I have spent some
> time rereading, concerning his actions during the his period of prison
> activism and time in Tunsia.
> 

I don't want to speak for Catherine, but I think that the distinction (at
least as I see it) is between applying theory to politics and politics as
theory. Here it was not a matter of making prison reform (or politics) "more
effective" but of finding more effective prison reform.

Here the difference is in opening spaces for individuals (prisoners?) to
speak rather than filling spaces in with what we expect them to say.

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Asher Haig           ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com
Dartmouth 2004