Reflecting on Cultural Dis/Identification and Preparing for 11/10

Folks, by and large I think your exploratory discussions last Thursday reflected a very good understanding of Foucault's discursive event -- the idea that, in every society, the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized, and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures -- and this was a huge impetus for our discussion. Each of you was able to articulate Muckelbauer's principal contribution: looking more carefully at resistance with/in Foucault's work opens up important re-definitions of resistance and power (Muckelbauer 72) and reveals critics' own programmatic agendas (73), freeing us up to consider the many "certain Foucaults" to whom critics think they are responding (74).