File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2002/foucault.0208, message 3


From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:53:52 EDT
Subject: Re: power/knowledge


and it is probably in the "Power" volume (#3)...
hen


In a message dated 8/1/02 7:51:49 PM, npr4-AT-columbia.edu writes:

>In an interview in one on the three Rabinow edited volumes (sorry, I don't
>
>have the reference available at the moment) Foucault addresses the charge
>
>that he equates knowledge and power.  He says he laughs whenever he hears
>
>that someone has attributed this thought to him; his purpose, he explains,
>
>is to investigate the *relationship* between knowledge and power.  There
>
>could not be a relationship *between* them, he points out, if they were
>not 
>*different* from each other.  [This is probably the same article refered
>to 
>in a previous posting by Clare O'Farrell, "Panopticon"]

   

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