Re: Foucault and the Environment?

How  F.'s comment on Iran's rev.  can be related to environment?  
I am really preoccupied by his position on Iran.  Does anybody have any
texts on this subject?
  I would appreciate the info.

Thanks

Atefeh


At 05:28 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Robert L. Behrens wrote:
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>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, brian mcbride wrote:
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>> 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,
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> 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
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> 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.
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>> feel no harm...
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