File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2004/foucault.0409, message 34


From: ColinNGordon-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:16:34 EDT
Subject: Re: racism


 
 

'conflicts with the demarcation' - what does this mean?
 
In a message dated 10/09/04 23:31:53 GMT Daylight Time,  
k.turner-AT-lancaster.ac.uk writes:

Can  anybody clarify the relationship between Foucault's discussion of   
racism in <<Les Anormaux>> and that in "Society Must be  Defended" for me?

It would seem from reading Stuart Elden's synopsis of  <<Les Anormaux>>  
(2001, 'The Constitution of the  Normal,' in "boundary 2" 28 (1): 91-105)  
that racism, as it is  figured in the 1975 course, is tied to  
anatamo-political discipline,  specifically psychiatry (102); whereas in  
SMBD, it is tied more to  bio-political regulation, and government.  
However, in both instances  it seems to be related to the emergence of  
man-as-species (97),  which conflicts with the demarcation that Foucault's  
makes between  man-as-body (organic, individual) and man-as-species  
(biological,  population), in SMBD (242).

Regards ? Kevin.

-- 
Kevin  Turner
Dept. of Sociology
Cartmel College
Lancaster  University
Lancaster
LA1 4YL

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