From: Craig McFarlane <cmcfarla-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: Foucault/Althusser (was wikipedia article on Foucault)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 12:59:19 -0400


Changing subjects slightly: the relationship between Althusser and 
Foucault has recently come to interest me.  With the exception of the 
(auto)biographies, I haven't been able to find a whole of published 
material that covers either their personal relationship or their 
intellectual relationship.  Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places...  
I'm especially interested in how Foucault's shift to "analytic" is an 
attempt to get around the science/ideology problem that Althusser's 
"Theory of theoretical practice" generates.  (If nothing else, there 
are a lot of interesting parallel passages in their respective works on 
these subjects.)

Slightly different again: is there anything to Miller's claim that one 
of the major causes of the dissolution of Deleuze and Foucault's 
friendship was the publication of HSI?  Miller claims that Deleuze read 
that book as an attack on Anti-Oedipus and responding to Foucault with 
an extensive letter detailing his complaints.  This claim is found on 
page 297 in two short paragraphs and referenced in footnote 39 
appearing on page 448 as coming from an anonymous source.  Has this 
letter ever been found or made public in any way?


On 4-Sep-04, at 12:43 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:

>
> Hi Clare,
>
> at one point I was responsible for a lot of the content on that 
> Foucault page. The problem is that as people can edit it at will, the 
> article keeps drifting into inaccuracies. Also, a lot of people 
> disagree with me - had a big dispute with people there about 
> Foucault's relationship to Althusser - it turned out ultimately that 
> they were arguing on the basis of Foucault for Beginners. Anyway, I'll 
> get round to tidying it up at some point again. Of course, if anyone 
> else here wants to get involved adding or removing stuff, then that's 
> what wikipedia is all about!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>> From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique-AT-iprimus.com.au>
>
>> Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
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>> To: foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
>
>> Subject: wikipedia article on foucault
>
>> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:34:11 +1000
>
>>
>
>> Have people seen the Wikipedia article on Foucault?
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
>
>>
>
>> Looking at the Wikipedia, I see that anyone at all can edit articles
>
>> which appear in the wikipedia - what a great concept! The article on
>
>> Foucault could do with a few edits... Anyone?
>
>> -- 
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>
>
>> ************************************************
>
>> Clare  O'Farrell
>
>> email: panoptique-AT-iprimus.com.au
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>> website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
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>> ************************************************
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