Re: Foucault and the Environment?

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, brian mcbride wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone out there in the rather silent Foucault land knew 
> of any discussion of a Foucauldian approach to the environment.  How about, 
> maybe a discussion of Nietzsche's writing on nature?  I'm trying to think 
> how power/knowledge might specifically operate in environmental discourse.  
> I can understand how present environmental discourse might serve as a 
> quasi-scientific body of knowledge,

 I might suggest looking at some of Foucault's comments on Iran and how 
the spriritual/political movement there was the driving force  in radical 
change in that country.  
RB



 but I'm wondering what space of 
> resistance exists for an environmental crisis which seems to be seen as 
> largely a by-product of capitalism and the fetishism of consumption.  In 
> other words,  I need help understanding how Foucault's analysis of power in 
> discursive formations can be utilized to understand environmental 
> destruction AND to orient people towards some alternative.
> 
> feel no harm...
> 
>