From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85-AT-home.com>
Subject: enough
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:26:42 -0700


I love this discussion on Foucault and Kant, but I agree with Matthew King's
suggestion that this other nonsense be carried out privately.

Apparently Bryan is presumptuous enough to think that it is his job to
moderate the list, even though, as Chris Jones points out, he doesn't appear
to have read any of Foucault's work in any detail.

I don't want to silence anyone. But this list can only survive if we don't
have people post 10 e-mails of nonsense per day, and this is something that
Bryan clearly either doesn't recognize or has too much pride to respect.

Let's stop making people want to unsubscribe. Bryan, watching you appeals to
a certain internalized ageism that I have never been able to shake. Don't
bring out the bigot in me.

~Nate

--

"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