Dear Ali,
I find it misleading to say that
At 02:50 PM 8/23/01, you wrote:
>Foucault's analysis of disciplinary society is closely related to
>capitalism. In fact disciplinary society is a capitalist society nothing
>else. Capitalism requires the maximisation of utility and docility
>simultaneously. This is what relates disciplines to capitalism
Foucault recognizes this parallel and is very explicit about not reducing
the functioning of disciplinary society to capitalism. This has several
problems 1) It leads ultimately a negative conception of power. 2) Reduces
the analysis of power to economic forces, unless you mean capitalism in a
broader sense in which case we seem to need a better descriptive term.
Regards,
Ferit
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Ferit Güven
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Earlham College
Richmond IN 47374-4095
http://www.earlham.edu/~guvenfe/