File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2001/foucault.0111, message 76


Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:07:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Jivko Georgiev <jivkox43georgiev-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: But isn't 'cutting' the same as understanding


Do you know how many deffinitions for knowledge has
been made in the history?  which one you are talking
about?


--- Greg Seppi <wasistaufkung-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> Very true... the ways in which we use knowledge
> always
> involve the exclusions of other knowledges.
> Additionally, we can engage a dominant discourse
> using
> truths as tools. 
> --- Lionel Boxer <lboxer-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> > or perhaps we have forgotten how to understand and
> > need to be reminded that 
> > understanding is cutting ... or knowing how to cut
> > the right way.  It is 
> > like planting potatoes - you cut them the right
> way
> > and you get more 
> > potatoes in the harvest.
> > 
> > **********************************
> > "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
> made
> > for cutting."
> > Michel Foucault.
> > **********************************
> > 
> >
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