Friday, June 17, 2005

Foucault on Sunday



There is always room at the capacious Long Sunday for posts of length.. so there is where you'll have to go if you want to read a rather baggy piece by me on (sort of) Foucault and Iran.

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Isn’t this what the thinker does - comb the world for signs, traces of the not-yet, of what might dispute the extant. The thinker sees in the extant figures for something else, and tries to make these figures legible. On the other side are the literalists, those who refuse the notion that the extant is not-all, and who see the future only as the accumulation of more units of the extant

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