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Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity

2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 64; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/fs/knq056

1468-2931

B. C. Hutchens,

Law in Society and Culture

in the rain forests -an equally anarchic habitat.Yes, the forest may seem orderly and hierarchical, 'striated by "gravitational verticals"' (i.e.trees) (p.88), but we must not fail to see the wood for the trees (as Deleuze and Guattari apparently have): the tree is deterritorialized by the forest, in which flows go in every direction (the strangler fig can grow from top to bottom and back again).'Its plateaus avoid climax' (p.88): forests are foris, 'outside' (p.89), and thus pose a considerable threat to the State.The book's Appendix, a case study of the 'entangled spaces' (p.169) of Olancho in eastern Honduras, drawn largely from Bonta's work there, constitutes an experimental try-out of Deleuzoguattarian ideas, tentative and suggestive: it concludes on something of a 'new environmentalist' riff, and this absorbing, inspiring work ends with the hope that geography might become 'the shelter' for the 'vast diversity' (p.190) of everything (except the State and multinationals) -a rewrite of Heidegger's shepherds of Being, perhaps, though without their crooks.