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Maybe he isn't. What are the "public" implications of Foucault's work
anyway? Rorty says in the opening pages of "Contingency" that public policy
can influence spaces for private self-creation. What are we supposed to
do--perform resistance by changing tax codes?

Seriously.

~Nate

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"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it
offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates,
unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave.
Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must
be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm,
thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is
in itself an action--a perilous act."
           -Michel Foucault