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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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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You don’t need Foucault & co. to understand either art or popular culture. Postmodernism was a misdiagnosis of art & culture in the 20th century as it was happening, and post-structuralism was faddish philosophies dumped into undergraduate curriculum by conformist professors.
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Kevan have you read any Foucalt? His importance has nothing to do with pop culture or art. Certainly faddish thought sprung from thinkers who read Foucault and took his ideas to wild places, but most of that was long after he was dead. Don't be like JBP and dismiss be4 reading
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I have read some Foucault—in English class. The arts were used & abused by profs injecting courses with pretentious & politicized “theory,” whether influenced by post-structuralism, the Frankfurt School, etc. Result: people like John who perpetuate bad thought, art & criticism.
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