I too commented on a Foucault interpretation of the faculty readings. Did you notice the connection with Barbara Ungar’s rape poems as well? Foucault talks about the multiple discourses produced by regulation, one of which includes silence. I found this particularly interesting. Ungar introduced her poems saying that they were written for radio and thus could not refer to the actual violence associated with rape. She then wrote and read her way around the act. Still, anyone hearing the poems on the radio would understand what had happened … as stated between the lines. Here, what is not said becomes the message. (This also reminds me of the way Coetzee told Lucy’s story in Disgrace.)

-Kim