File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2001/foucault.0104, message 166


Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:57:43 -0500
From: Bob <suannschafer-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Foucault and pragmatism, q&a


>If one is to apply Foucault, oppressive
>knowledge and the power it wields upon the body, if oppressive, should be
>resisted.

How "should" one resist "oppressive knowledge" and power?

>What I've got to say that I think is
>somewhat new is that this may not lead to nihilism, as his critics complain,
>because there will always be more order to resist.

Indeed!

>There will always be
>discursive power and normalization.

Indeed!


   

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