Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
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Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
Radicalism that is not successfully co-opted or defanged, that continues to linger within the mainstream, will be met with increasing hostility and, ultimately, condemned as associated with violence. As Táíwò writes in Elite Capture, “Where co-optation fails, regular old repression will do.”2
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The turn to ‘theory’ notes
growth of critical theory comprises a series of ‘waves’ from specific decades
two older, but still unassimilated new approaches to theory such as Marxist criticism and psychoanalytic theory (pioneered in 1930s then reborn in the 1960s)
two new approaches emerged from these such as linguistic and feminist criticism
in the 19
Smaller units (individuals, communities, etc.) have efficient but localized forms of doing a thing. The doing of the thing is plugged into a much larger worldview which explains both how to do the thing and why you do the thing — James Scott calls that metis. When a larger unit (states, corporations, what have you) subsumes the smaller unit, it ten... See more