The Bionic Bliki

Dr. Glu’s WPMU environment for his Film/Text/Culture classes!

This is a discussion between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky about the notion of human nature and justice that Bryan Alexander linked to a while back. I keep returning to it again and again because it traces many of my own questions and struggles about the idea of some absolute idea of justice, power, genius, greatness, etc. Additionally, it suggests both the possibilities and problematics of a distributed network of creativity within an “advanced” technological society. Below is the discussion in two parts.