ABSTRACT
SM In Australia what seems most striking about your work is your ‘antisociology’, if one could call it that. Could you explain this ‘anti-sociology’? It’s not so much an anti-sociology. I’m neither a sociologist nor an antisociologist. Sociology was where I landed in the university, certainly. But from the point of view of a discipline, I left it during the sixties, going into semiology, psychoanalysis, Marxism (into sociology too) and then…in ‘68, for example, I undertook a radical critique of American sociology. So, there was an anti-sociology movement. For myself, let’s say it is also a critique of the notion of the ‘social’, not only a critique of the discipline of sociology. It is postulated within sociology that there is a society, that there is a ‘social’ which is evident, and that you need do no more than conduct quantitative studies, statistical research, etc. Well, effectively, that is not the case. In that sense, yes, I want to go past working in sociology. I don’t want to stay there. But it is not a declared hostility. It’s just that it is one of those disciplines which may be precious, but it’s necessary to pass through all disciplines.
