yeahwho
08-04-2008, 04:50 PM
I love good writing and would like to think of myself, as the Author Stanley Fish writes, as a concerned citizen and environmentally aware. Yet I know this is true, I Am, Therefore I Pollute (http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/i-am-therefore-i-pollute/index.html), fromthe NYTimes OP/ED page, Monday, August 4, 2008.
Great read, excerpt;
Categorization being what it is, there is no end to the subcategories that can be devised, each of them bringing with it a new set of strictures and a new opportunity to be inadequate and delinquent. Michel Foucault made a career of observing that modern techniques of regulation are more far-reaching and consequential than the old way of keeping people in line with guns and clubs, especially when they are imposed for your own good and for the good of society. He would have had a field day with recycling and would no doubt have written a book (maybe he did and I missed it while sorting the garbage), entitled, perhaps, “The Archaeology of Waste.”
Great read, excerpt;
Categorization being what it is, there is no end to the subcategories that can be devised, each of them bringing with it a new set of strictures and a new opportunity to be inadequate and delinquent. Michel Foucault made a career of observing that modern techniques of regulation are more far-reaching and consequential than the old way of keeping people in line with guns and clubs, especially when they are imposed for your own good and for the good of society. He would have had a field day with recycling and would no doubt have written a book (maybe he did and I missed it while sorting the garbage), entitled, perhaps, “The Archaeology of Waste.”