From: "Stuart Elden" <stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Out of Africa
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:14:22 -0000


My first thought was the discussion with Gilles Deleuze 'Intellectuals and
Power', but it doesn't seem to be there. However it does have a number of
related points.

Stuart


> Nice quote, but can't find it, not in "archaeology" anyways, any ideas,
>
> "Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it
> offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates,
> unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave.
> Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must
> be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm,
> thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is
> in itself an action--a perilous act."
>            -Michel Foucault
>