Blogs, government and the GOP

(Updated)

I actually like reading the political blogs because they are a kind of crucible that reflect on some of the issues that Foucault raises, such as government.

The DailyKos for example postulates that the GOP can’t succeed in power, because they are the party that wants to abolish government.

But is this argument reasonable?

Difference between racism and race wars

A self-described almost-finished politics student at Lancaster University raises an issue we should talk about more:

The difference between racism and race wars in Foucault.

Full text of What is an Author?

Someone has scanned in the full text of the essay What is an Author? and made it available. Previously only excerpts were available (at the Foucault.info site).

The legal status of these texts is unclear. Additionally, since this is an image scan, it seems to me nothing is gained over having the original book (a text-based scan is at least searchable).

Foucault in Iran

Before Afary and Anderson published their book analyzing Foucault’s travel to and writings on Iran, they published a piece in New Politics which condenses some of their material.

This is available online.