If only Foucault had lived to see the Internet...

02.06.2005

"I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. What are we suffering from? From too little: from channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent "bad" information from invading and suffocating the "good". Rather we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings... Which doesn't mean, as is often feared, the homogenization and leveling from below. But on the contrary, the differentiation and simultaneity of different networks." -Michel Foucault

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i just came across your blog

i just came across your blog and was very interested to see the prominent space you give to foucault. i especially like your linkage of this quote to the blogosphere. in my own work, i'm also looking at the relationship between foucault and new media. if you are interested you can check out this paper i wrote a few years ago relating foucault to the microbroadcasting movement in italy (http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=259) anyway, it makes me happy to see autonomous, creative, and critical voices proliferating in this new communicative terrain that is all too crowded by those who wish to dominate and command (namely the political right and marketing). the soft revolution has already begun and if we look, we can see a different world has always already been in formation... btw, full props for the progressive blog alliance. peace and love.

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