Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:15:58 +0100
From: newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Il faut defendre Foucault


Do you actually read the posts you respond to?  I said Foucault would never 
subscribe to the idea that something (i.e., nationalism) was unilaterally 
imposed by one group (i.e., the West) on another.  I was hardly taking issue 
with the idea that 'regions' or 'areas' are constructs.

And yes, I have read the Archaeology of Knowledge.

Nathan


>===== Original Message From foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>No, we cant. Because surely he will ensure us that
>"region" and "area" are constructs, made by the power,
>rather than definitions of reality:-))
>Have you read "Archeology of the knowledge" ?
>--- newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Yes, we can.  The words are pretty clear.
>>
>> >===== Original Message From
>> foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>> >We can not ensure if he would not:)
>> >--- newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >> >===== Original Message From
>> >> foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>> >> >Personally me, I am Bulgarian. First: The
>> Balkans
>> >> are
>> >> >not "area" or "region". This is one of those
>> matrix
>> >> >like that of the nationalism, which the west
>> >> >constructed and applied to us, and then claim it
>> is
>> >> a
>> >> >definition they found in the nature of our
>> >> existence.
>> >> >Isn't that so much Foucauldian?
>> >>
>> >> Actually, it is rather un-Foucauldian.  Foucault
>> >> would never accept the idea
>> >> that nationalism was somehow unilaterally imposed
>> by
>> >> "the West" on "everyone
>> >> else."  It is inconsistent with his idea of power
>> >> relations.
>> >>
>> >> Your casual use of 'us' is also un-Foucauldian.
>> >>
>> >> Nathan
>> >>
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>> >>
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>> Department of Politics
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