I like that title.
So hopefully I will be doing a little more posting around here now that I finished my first draft of a review I wrote of Foucault Beyond Foucault by Jeffrey Nealon for possible inclusion in a narrative therapy related journal. It was not a typical review, at least in my opinion. I included a piece on implications for practice where I hope to raise some considerations around taken for granted notions of justice-doing, and the continuing insistence of the scarcity of resistance. Now I wait to hear back from the editor, which I am finding is the hard part. This is the time when the insecurity around writing is the most intense. I hope it doesn't suck... Fun!
Continuing the power theme, yesterday Michele and I visited UCI's Experimental Media Performance Lab to catch the wonderful production of Galileo In America by Robert Allen & Antoinetter LaFarge. Galileo In America is part examination of the mythologizing of history for political ends, part German cabaret, but mostly addresses; under what conditions does anyone speak truth to power, or who gets to speak at all?
As I sat in this performance struggling with insecurity around my recent writing project, and my insistence that resistance is everywhere. It was the character of Virginia, Galileo's daughter (but also representing Brecht's little known female collaborators who co-wrote many of his plays) that said it best at the end of the performance while calling out Brecht, when she insisted "even the furniture has a story." I couldn't have said it better myself. The show runs for another weekend. Go.
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