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+  From: Greg Seppi <wasistaufkung@xxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:50:33 -0800 (PST)
Very true... the ways in which we use knowledge always
involve the exclusions of other knowledges.
Additionally, we can engage a dominant discourse using
truths as tools.
--- Lionel Boxer <lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> or perhaps we have forgotten how to understand and
> need to be reminded that
> understanding is cutting ... or knowing how to cut
> the right way. It is
> like planting potatoes - you cut them the right way
> and you get more
> potatoes in the harvest.
>
> **********************************
> "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made
> for cutting."
> Michel Foucault.
> **********************************
>
>
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