"For a healthy engagement with Foucault, we should take this part of his philosophy with a grain of salt. Rather than automatically assuming that whatever ‘new social arrangement’ emerges must be oppressive in some way, it would be more productive to be on the lookout for potential anti-emancipatory effects of all political activity (no matter how emancipatory it claims to be)."

IVery well written. Thanks for posting this insightful entry into a school of though people are too often to quickly dismiss.
thepuppy | 03.25.08 - 9:14 pm | #