American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)
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I've read French po-mo theory and can say that it is absolute garbage. Derrida, Lacan, Cixous - all peddlers of irrelevant theories which have little to nothing to do with the real world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTXOF7K2ZA …
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You might've read them but you didn't understand them. If you had then you'd be aware of their applicability to all sorts of things. I've spent decades writing books applying their ideas to very concrete things: books, films, events, etc.
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I should also highlight the many hoaxes and postmodernism generator - all of which undermine the credibility of postmodern pseudo-disciplines. I'm sure you are aware of both the Sokal Hoax and the recent series of hoaxes by
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What I'm aware of is that Sokal and Bricmont's book tried to say that the likes of Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and others are "fashionable nonsense." That simply isn't correct. They just didn't work to understand the concepts and ideas.
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"It's not that you didn't like The Matrix, it's that you didn't understand it."
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At first I didn't like The Matrix, that's true. But then after watching it and being with it over repeated viewings, I did indeed come to understand it and like it better and better. Same thing, btw, with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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This looks like something you would draw in a high school art class.
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These guys are really tough to read and they take a long time to work through. It took me about a decade to finally work my way up through them. Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense is another example of a total failure to sit down and understand them.
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If anyone is guilty here of “not reading,” it is you. Paglia has spent the last three decades criticizing the post-structuralists and their ideas, most notably in “Junk Bonds And Corporate Raiders.” The idea that they are just “too difficult” for all but a few is self-flattery.
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Ha, ha, if that were true then I would've been hearing her critique specific concepts and ideas in Foucault, Derrida or Deleuze. And she hasn't read Heidegger, and you can't understand Derrida without Heidegger. No I sense laziness.
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She says Foucault borrows from Heidegger among many others. It’s sad that you wasted 10 years reading bad philosophy when you could have been working to write better poetry and film criticism. Next lifetime, perhaps?
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Well I didn't just read po-mo thought. I read everything. The whole history of philosophy. Sorry to disappoint you but you obviously know nothing about me or my work. That's YOUR limitation, not mine.
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I’ve seen your prose broken into lines that you classify as poetry, and I’ve seen your foolish notion that Lynch’s terrible Twin Peaks revamp possesses intellectual depth. All that reading has apparently given you very little insight.
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Then you're in the minority. And apparently don't, won't or can't understand popular culture and how it works. I used to think po-mo thought was shit too, way back. Until I sat down with the books and learned to engage with them and give them a fair hearing.
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1) Peterson isn't an American. 2) Speaking as a student working in postmodern and continental philosophy, Paglia & Peterson make some good points against them. And then sometimes they're wrong. Surprise! Aren't we all?
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Canadian, yes, but still part of that region that Joe Garreau in The Nine Nations of North America identified as a cultural continuum from Toronto to New York. Still within the "North American" culture zone, and thinking that is very specific to that zone.
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What a limp attack. Not surprising.
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No, it's not limp. American intellectuals just haven't read these guys. That's a fact. Try listening sometime to Jordan Peterson fumbling his way through a synopsis of Deconstruction. Neither he nor Paglia know a THING about it.
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