Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Deconstruction, Biopower, Metanarrative
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>>justice is what the most powerful nations say it is. >>if i have spoken the truth, i have established a regime of knowledge. >>if people buy what politicians are selling, what those politicians say is the truth. >>speech is a technology, a tool for making things happen. >>the disciplining and normalizing power of speech, combined with the power of observation and examination, plus the apparatuses of the security state=the current state. >>power responds to life by totalizing life, by politicizing everything. >> what i am doing is something which concerns philosophy, which is to say, the politics of truth. The course so far has been a series of powerful, meta-narratives , that is, all-encompassing theories. Richard rorty-there is nothing outside language, we can"t know or say anything outside language ; our final vocabulary is reality .