http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/12/24/genevieve-fraisse/ better than fun Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/2009/12/24/genevieve-fraisse/comment-page-1/#comment-33058 Csothbeg144 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:43:57 +0000 http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=1555#comment-33058 This seems very interesting. I would like to read Fraisse's book, but from the abbreviated entry I already wonder if it is really up for debate at all. (I am referring to "choices" between and within power structures.) I think that this question is really a mis-question, or at the very least, it isn't a real choice. Of course, the designation of a choice's "realness" depends on the stipulations one puts on the term. But I think that here, the value of a choice is meaningless if it isn't grounded in some sort of real discussion or problem. For example, doesn't a woman's choice to go into prostitution amount to the same timeworn choice that all workers face?-- "of course you can choose *where* you work, but you must always work. Well that's not true because there you also have a choice-- you may live or die. But you will not be buried nor your family cared for if you do not choose to work." As far as I'm concerned, whether or not the subject is linked up to a political argument is rather inconsequential since that too is an oscillation of power, devoid of philosophical (or real) potential if it is left undefined. This seems very interesting. I would like to read Fraisse’s book, but from the abbreviated entry I already wonder if it is really up for debate at all. (I am referring to “choices” between and within power structures.) I think that this question is really a mis-question, or at the very least, it isn’t a real choice. Of course, the designation of a choice’s “realness” depends on the stipulations one puts on the term. But I think that here, the value of a choice is meaningless if it isn’t grounded in some sort of real discussion or problem. For example, doesn’t a woman’s choice to go into prostitution amount to the same timeworn choice that all workers face?– “of course you can choose *where* you work, but you must always work. Well that’s not true because there you also have a choice– you may live or die. But you will not be buried nor your family cared for if you do not choose to work.” As far as I’m concerned, whether or not the subject is linked up to a political argument is rather inconsequential since that too is an oscillation of power, devoid of philosophical (or real) potential if it is left undefined.

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