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Cadzao Posted 17 years ago
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Too complicated sentence - need help

"Writing in the vacuum left by the rather bankrupt Left at the end of the Cold War, whose history piles with corpses and maimed lives from the Soviet Gulag to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, these neo-Foucauldians find themselves unable to leave the safety in the interstices within the liberal system (which does grant limited ‘freedoms’) to go for an explanation outside of the technologies of power themselves. Rose, as other neo-Foucaudian theorists of governance, stakes out a position of inventive politics from within the interstices of the matrices of power in liberalism, using the terrains of freedom therein generated to craft life projects each with its own telos, a rather understandable if circuitous way back to the basic humanist premise of individual lives as their own ends at a time when such humanist universalism is eroded by neo-liberal/neo-conservative rule in conjunction with American empire building."


Could you please do me a favor and rephrase the blue sentence?

Thank you so much in advance.

Cadzao





  

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Hi Cadzao, "Writing in the vacuum left by the rather bankrupt Left at the end of the Cold War, whose history piles with corpses and maimed lives from the Soviet Gulag to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, these neo-Foucauldians find themselves unable to leave the safety in the interstices within the liberal system (which does grant limited ‘freedoms’) to go for an explanation outside of the technologies of power themselves. Rose, as other neo-Foucaudian theorists of governance, stakes out a position of inventive politics from within the interstices of the matrices of power in liberalism, using the terrains of freedom therein generated to craft life projects each with its own telos, a rather understandable if circuitous way back to the basic humanist premise of individual lives as their own ends at a time when such humanist universalism is eroded by neo-liberal/neo-conservative rule in conjunction with American empire building. " Wow, this sentence is so complicated that it seems to me ridiculous.

— Clive

  • Hi Cadzao, "Writing in the vacuum left by the rather bankrupt Left at the end of the Cold War, whose history piles with corpses and maimed lives from the Soviet Gulag to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, these neo-Foucauldians find themselves unable to leave the safety in the interstices within the liberal system (which does grant limited ‘freedoms’) to go for an explanation outside of the technologies of power themselves.
  • Rose, as other neo-Foucaudian theorists of governance, stakes out a position of inventive politics from within the interstices of the matrices of power in liberalism, using the terrains of freedom therein generated to craft life projects each with its own telos, a rather understandable if circuitous way back to the basic humanist premise of individual lives as their own ends at a time when such humanist universalism is eroded by neo-liberal/neo-conservative rule in conjunction with American empire building.
  • " Wow, this sentence is so complicated that it seems to me ridiculous.
  • I don't know anything about Foucault's political theories, althogh I imagine you do.
  • Let me try to break the sentence into smaller ones.
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Hi Cadzao,
"Writing in the vacuum left by the rather bankrupt Left at the end of the Cold War, whose history piles with corpses and maimed lives from the Soviet Gulag to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, these neo-Foucauldians find themselves unable to leave the safety in the interstices within the liberal system (which does grant limited ‘freedoms’) to go for an explanation outside of the tec
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Hi Clive,

Thank you so much for your help.

I understand the Greek concept of 'telos'.

Could you please tell me more clearly about "craft life projects?" What does this phrase mean?

He uses
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Hi,
Could you please tell me more clearly about "craft life projects?" What does this phrase mean?

He uses the terrains of freedom therein generated to craft life projects each with its own telos.

"craft" here is a verb, meaning "make with some skill".

Clive
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