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From: kmille <admin-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:49:29 +0100
Curiosity as defined by Foucault strikes me as the exact opposite to
"Common sense":
"Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized by Christianity, by
philosophy and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity,
futility. I like the word however. To me it suggests something
altogether different: it evokes "concern"; it evokes the care one takes
for what exists and could exist; an acute sense of the real which,
however, never becomes fixed; a readiness to find our surroundings
strange and singular; a certain relentlessness in ridding ourselves of
our familiarities and looking at things otherwise; a passion for seizing
what is happening now and what is passing away; a lack of respect for
traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential." (trans.
mod. by Clare O' Farrell)
Michel Foucault [1980] 'The Masked Philosopher' in (1996) /Foucault Live
(Interviews, 1961-1984).
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Another matter : for the last 2 months, posts to the Foucault-L list
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sounds better, for the quality of the Foucault-L, to go on reviewing. To
reduce the delay between the time messages are posted and the time they
are actually sent to the list, I ask to a few members, with frequent
mail access and at a distance from Greenwitch/Paris, to volunteer to
help me smooth the flux.
Please apply directly to admin-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, not to the list.
Camille
Foucault-L admin.