Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 03:25:47 -0400 (EDT) From: guillame debord <guydeborder-AT-yahoo.ca> Subject: Subject : Re: Fisk articles Clare O'Farrell <panopticon1-AT-iprimus.com.au> Reply-To : foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu To : foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject : Re: Fisk articles Date : Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:55:57 -0700 Reply Reply All Forward Printer Friendly Version Thanks for that, manynotone. I'd like to hear what others have to say about the last few day's events. What would Foucault have said? What is Edward Said saying (I haven't found anything published by him in the last days)? You probably already have seen this by now - I posted this to the list yesterday: Here are some comments from Foucault against hatred and terrorism which I think are apt under the current circumstances A reply to an Iranien reader who commented on his views on Iran 'The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential problem for our time and for the years to come. The first condition in approaching it with anything resembling intelligence is to not to start with hatred.' (1978) 'Reponse de Michel Foucault a une lectrice iranienne' in Dits et Ecrtis, t. III. Paris: Gallimard, 1994 'If someone were to ask me how I conceive of what I do, I would reply if the strategist is the man who says 'What does this death, this cry, this uprising matter in the grand scale of things and what does a general principle matter to me in the situation in which we find ourselves?' well I don't care whether the strategist is a politician, a historian, a revolutionary, a supporter of the Shah or of the Ayatolla, my theoretical morality is the opposite. It is 'antistrategic': to be respectful when a singularity rises up and intransigent when power infringes on the universal' (1978xiv) 'Is it useless to revolt?', in (1999) Religion and Culture. Edited by Jeremy R. Carrette. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 134. (trans mod.) ..'terrorism... has a totally opposite effect which is to make the bourgeois class even more closely attached to its ideology. ... Using terror for revolution : it is a totally contradictory idea ..' (1976) 'Le savoir comme crime', in Dits et Ecrits, t. III. Paris: Gallimard, 1994. p.83. -- -- Clare ************************************************ Clare O'Farrell email: panopticon1-AT-iprimus.com.au website: http://home.iprimus.com.au/panopticon1/ ************************************************ _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free -AT-yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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