Brother Bode, Foucault is fine but impenetrable for most folks, including me. Personally, I don't think we need Foucault to understand this dynamic. For example every African--or at least Africans who have not fully abandoned indigenous systems--knows that "agency" cannot be reduced to individual free will, that the Gods and the Ancestors can "structure" human action, that social obligation act as a brake on unbridled selfishness, that the social good is aimed at striking a balance between the mundane world of human existence at the non-material world of extra-human forces. kzs --
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