...history" wants to preserve discontinuity, eruption, the moment of emergence, and to seek the point of "the reversal of a relationship of forces, the usurpation...vocabulary turned against those who had once used it. . . ."124 Taking note of the images of aggression, discharge of power, general activism, willfulness,...

...with ever new masks in the change of anonymous processes of overpowering: "An 'event,' consequently, is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle,...poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked other."23 What the synthetic power of transcendental consciousness was hitherto supposed to accomplish...

...masks in the change of anonymous processes of overpowering: "An 'event,' consequently, Jürgen Habermas is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle,...poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked other."23 What the synthetic power of transcendental consciousness was hitherto supposed to accomplish...

...and vague notions like "continuity" by proliferating events without number. An event, he explains, "is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle,...appropriation of a vocabulary turned against those who had one used it, a feeble domination that poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked 'other'...

...with ever new masks in the change of anonymous processes of overpowering: "An 'event,' consequently, is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle,...poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked other."23 What the synthetic power of transcendental consciousness was hitherto supposed to accomplish...

...terms of their most unique characteristics, their most acute manifestations. An event, consequently is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle,...vocabulary turned against those who had once used it. (Robinow 1984, p. 88) While many feminists scholars agree that Foucault is valuable in his assessment...

...the government in 1972. The version with which I am working gives 1973 as the date of publication. turned against those who had once used it, a feeble domination that poisons itself as it grows lax' (1977:154). The presentation of this document to the government, written in a vocabulary appropriate...

...then, history is the unfolding of the haphazard, aleatory, and contingent. As such, it is basically "the appropriation of a vocabulary turned against those who had once used it." In other words, history is reduced to a discursive vocabulary used against those who have been in power....

...event]. [By "event" is meant] the reversal of a relationship of forces, the usurpation of power, [and] the appropriation of a vocabulary turned against those who had once used it. (Miche! Foucault) Discourse lives . . . beyond itself in a living impulse toward the object; if we...

...within. An event is thus a void in the structure of identity and signification. It is, Foucault claims, 'not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle, but...poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked "other".'13 As the effect of clashing forces, the event - the entry of the 'other' which is a ruptural...