Stuart
I hadn't picked up the Althusser reference - many thanks for this -
most useful. I always enjoy the very small fragments of critique that
Foucault produces every now and then concerning contemporary
theorists.
>
>On the Althusser issue, again I think you will be disappointed. There are
>some allusions (PP 17 most notably), but the most explicit thing about
>Althusser in the course was not actually said but in the manuscript the
>editor consulted.
>
>"we should not use the notion of state apparatus, because it is much too
>large, much too abstract to indicate these immediate, miniscule, capillary
>powers, which are exercised over bodies, the behaviour, gestures, and times
>of individuals. The state apparatus doesn't take account of this microphysic
>of power' (PP 17 n. *).
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Clare
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