From: "Nathan Goralnik" <rhizome85-AT-home.com> Subject: Re: disciplinary society in crisis Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:08:00 -0700 Ali Thanks a lot for a great post :) I'm especially interested in this paragraph: << What has become unbearable and intolerable is the form of power that purports to define people's life, individual and social. Capitalist governmental rationality and its access to and its authority over the individual and social life is being challenged. This is happening because the form of power which sustains such a governmental rationality i.e. bio/disciplinary power is increasingly becoming unacceptable and illegitimate in modern capitalist societies. Modern single-issue movements and struggles should be seen in this context. They are not just single-issue movements but they have general import too and that general import is that they are (or they have potential to become) struggles against the hegemony of bio/disciplinary power. >> So would the success of these struggles be, for you, the "maturation" of disciplinary society? I'm reminded, sort of, of Baudrillard: in general, the notion that Foucault's critique of the stabilizing and normalizing effects of disciplinary power places an implicit emphasis on pure difference, and that perhaps this is precisely the ideology of late capitalism (please excuse me terminology here). Would the proliferation of new identities (via these single-issue movements) be a challenge to disciplinary society, or simply one of its prime effects? I'm a little confused; very interested. Nate
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