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4 Crit 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/tcrit4 and id is 1 raw text is: Winter 2011 Amos Lee's Street Corner Preacher' through Michel Foucault's Critique of Scientific Knowledge:2 A Critique of Legal Knowledge Nick J. Sciullo* I. Introduction I'm here now, I can't believe it, Proof in the puddin' Everything happened for a reason Through this music I'm able to feed the family When I'm stressed out, it's my insanity It's a life-style, all in the streets and in Hollywood Music in my DNA, it's my livelihood.. .music ...3 Today's prophets of hope, scholars of struggle, and legal minds of imperceptible aptitude are among us.4 They walk the streets we walk, eat in our delis, listen to our music, and drive on our highways; but too often, we fail to realize that there is profound life beyond our self-interested personal or encapsulating social class spheres. Too long has legal theory been confined to the stacks, the musty smell of federal reporters permeating the power of the mind, rendering stale the questioning nature that was nurtured in us as children. We must not let the voices of the downtrodden, socially maligned, and economically disadvantaged I Amos Lee, Street Corner Preacher, on LAST DAYS AT THE LODGE (Blue Note Records 2008). 2 See infra notes 67-120. B.A., University of Richmond; J.D., West Virginia University College of Law. A big thank you to Dr. Kevin D. Kuswa (University of Richmond) for his thoughtful comments on this piece. Thank you to Marie E. Eszenyi who provided fierce editorial assistance. Thanks also to the wonderful editorial assistance from the staff of the crit that have endeavored greatly to make this piece a stronger, more persuasive contribution to legal theory. Thanks are, as always, due to my father, Rick Sciullo. Hi-Tek, Music for Life, on HI-TEKNOLOGY VOL. 2: THE CHIP (Babygrande Records 2006). 4 Jody David Armour, Bring the Noise, 40 B.C. L. REV. 733, 736-37 (1999) (Perhaps we already have such prophets in our midst but we refuse to acknowledge them seriously. They used to say that the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls; now we may find them blaring from boomboxes propped up against these same walls and halls.). 1