Excerpts from an interview with Foucault in *Le Monde* who declined to reveal his name. * * ** ** * The Masked Philosopher (1)* *...* I shall propose a game.:that of the "year without a name".For a year books would be puiblished without their authors' names.The critics would have to cope with a mass of entirely anonymous books.But, now that I come to think of it, it's possible they would have noting to do:all the authors would wait until the following year before publishng their books....
...If I have chosen anonymity , it is not therefore to criticise this or that individual, which I never do.It's a way of addressing the potential reader, the only individual here who is of interest to me,more directly:"since you don't know who I am,you will be more inclined to find out why I say what you read;just alllow yourself to say,quite simply, it;s true, it's false.I like it or don't like it.Period." ...It seems that Courbet had a friend who used to wake up in the night yelling:"I want to judge, I want to judge" It's amazing how peole like judging. ...We have to walk in line because of the extream narrowness of the place where one can listen and make oneself heard. ..anybody who writes exerts a disturbing power upon which one must try to place limitations, if not actually to put an end to it. Hence, too, the declaration, repeated over and over , that evrything nowadays is empty, desolate, uninterseting, unimportant:a declaration that obviously comes from those who , not doing anything themselves, consider that there are too amny others who are. -- Dileep R I thuravoor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
