tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549088046875609394.post2685132608312399021..comments2023-03-24T16:07:35.617-07:00Comments on Sounding Rhetoric: Chapter Two of Society Must be DefendedPaul Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00841372871906932597noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549088046875609394.post-52015262506771653892009-02-02T08:00:00.000-08:002009-02-02T08:00:00.000-08:00There is a strange sense in which his writing some...There is a strange sense in which his writing sometimes seems like a polemic in favor of localism, which in some ways, is quite a conservative set of practices and attitudes.<BR/><BR/>Its odd how he thinks say, the prison, functions as a metaphor for society, even though as an example its quite generalizable.<BR/><BR/>Its been a while since i encountered Fabricating Foucault. I think if I roll with any secondary Foucault anytime soon it will be Dreyfus and Rabinow, which seems to be cited quite often.Paul Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841372871906932597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2549088046875609394.post-47245514367351216272009-02-02T07:01:00.000-08:002009-02-02T07:01:00.000-08:00Deacon takes this up in Fabricating Foucault; the ...Deacon takes this up in Fabricating Foucault; the more conservative appropriations of his work (foucault) seem increasingly difficult to sustain, eg in early Butler where she emphasizes the code of the performance over the performance itself.<BR/><BR/>What more, when one would take that far away view they could possibly see beneath the soil, to the literal embodiment of the rhizome. In which case, what are we to do with readings that seem strategically to treat the grand view as if it were the only view? <BR/><BR/>Or to put it in more disciplinary terms; if cultural formations can not be read from the abstraction, must a rhetorician become an ethnographer? <BR/><BR/>Perhaps this is the reason why we allow so much agenda-setting to be called scholarship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com