three as in what?
three out of five or out of 10?
I think I missed the joke lol
pardon my ignorance.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Timothy O'Leary <autrement@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chetan,
>
> One place to start would be Foucault's discussion of the election of
> Francois Mitterand in 1981, the first left(ist) President of France in many
> decades.
>
> See: "So is it important to think?", EW3, p.454ff
>
> On the other hand, one could take the route that Martin Hardie, with his
> tongue firmly in cheek, has suggested on a different topic, and say that
> Foucault would have given Obama... a three.
>
> Timothy
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > So I know this is completely random, but since we know that Foucault was
> > intending to move to California (at least I think he was) before his
> death
> > came into the picture, and considering (without AIDS of course, purely
> > theoretical) he lived through 2008, what do you think he would have had
> to
> > say about the presidential election and Obama's rise to power?
> > Do you think he would have been positive, negative or ambivalent?
> >
> > I ask because I read an interesting yet rare piece by Judith Butler on
> > Obama's victory taking a guarded approach yet appreciating its apparent
> > significance. I'm not trying to equivocate both thinkers, but I have an
> > inkling Foucault would have had a similar if not identical opinion, had
> he
> > lived to the present.
> > Here's Butler's article:
> >
> >
>
http://angrywhitekid.blogs.com/weblog/2008/11/uncritical-exuberance-judith-butlers-take-on-obama.html
> >
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