On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:49:00 PST foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on counter-discourse and its use in post-colonialism. As far
> as I know, Foucault talked about counter-discourse in the interview with
> Deleuze. Is there any other source in which Foucault said about
> counter-discourse and the relationship between it and resistance ? Any
> advice will be appreciated.
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Try History of Sexuality, Volume I, pp. 100-102, where he outlines the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourse. Also, the following passage, which i just happen to have on hand, might be illuminating, though its not directly about discourse per se:
"Rules are empty are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing those rules, to replace those who had used them, to disguise themselves so as to pervert them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them? so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules (Michel Foucault, _Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews_, ed. with a preface by Donald F. Bouchard; trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon (Oxford: Blackwell, 1977), p. 151 [sorry i dont have the american edition's page number])."
and finally, though this has even less to do with discourse per se, it does relate to resistance, of which counter-discourse is but one example:
"There are no relations of power without resistances; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real, nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power. It exists all the more by being in the same place as power (Michel Foucault, _Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings_, 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon (Brighton: Harvester, 1980), p. 142)."
hope this helps.
phil
"If you think breaking windows is bad,
wait till you hear about capitalism."