Ong discusses agonistic structures in his 1981 book Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness (Cornell University Press), the published version of his 1979 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University.
But also see Ong's further discussion of agonistic structures in his 1982 essay "The Agonistic Base of Scientifically Abstract Thought: Issues in Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness" that is reprinted in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry, edited by me and Paul A. Soukup (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002, pages 479-495).
Also of related interest is Harold Bloom's 1982 book Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism (Oxford University Press).
Now, in the 1983 second edition of Dreyfus and Rabinow's book, mentioned above, Foucault says, "I have more than a draft of a book about sexual ethics in the sixteenth century, in which also the problem of the techniques of the self, self-examination, the cure of souls is very important, both in the Protestant and Catholic churches" (page 231). It would be wonderful to see Foucault's draft published!
For further discussion of Foucault's Confessions of the Flesh, see my 4,800-word online essay "Michel Foucault's 2021 Book on Ancient Western Christianity, and Walter J. Ong's Thought":
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HAMID YEGANEV'S TESTIMONY
Now, in Professor Yeganeh's exciting forthcoming new article "Orality, Literacy, and the 'Great Divide' in Cultural Values," among other things, he says, "literacy can be considered as much a consequence of socio-economic development as it is its cause (Fuller et al., 1987; Graff, 1979, 1986; Stanovich, 1993). Whether we take literacy as the cause of socio-economic development or its effect, we should recognize that the cultural and social divide between orality and literacy remains significant." Amen.
When Professor Yeganeh links his eleven adapted conceptual frameworks about orality and literacy with eleven various cultural dimensions, he produces the following list of characteristics, each of which he briefly operationally defines and explains:
(3.1) Concrete vs. Abstract;
(3.2) Additive vs. Subordinative;
(3.3) Redundant vs. Concise;
(3.4) Emotionally Resonant vs. Accurate;
(3.5) Homeostatic vs. Accumulative;
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