Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:51:45 -0500
From: ferit guven <guvenfe-AT-earlham.edu>
Subject: Re: disciplinary society in crisis


Dear Ali,
I find it misleading to say that
         At 02:50 PM 8/23/01, you wrote:
>Foucault's analysis of disciplinary society is closely related to 
>capitalism. In fact disciplinary society is a capitalist society nothing 
>else. Capitalism requires the maximisation of utility and docility 
>simultaneously. This is what relates disciplines to capitalism

Foucault recognizes this parallel and is very explicit about not reducing 
the functioning of disciplinary society to capitalism.  This has several 
problems 1) It leads ultimately a negative conception of power. 2) Reduces 
the analysis of power to economic forces, unless you mean capitalism in a 
broader sense in which case we seem to need a better descriptive term.

Regards,
Ferit
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Ferit Güven
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Earlham College
Richmond IN 47374-4095
http://www.earlham.edu/~guvenfe/