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From: "McIntyre" <mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:38:30 -0000
is there a proper source for quote?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Elden" <stuartelden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: Le pouvoir psychiatrique
> Many thanks for all that useful material. I don't have much to say about
the
> Bentham issue - there is some material in the second half of Chapter 5 of
my
> Mapping the Present on this, but as I said it's not something I've touched
> for a while.
>
> 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. *).
>
> But as you suggest, the implicit material is broader than this.
>
> best wishes
>
> Stuart
>