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)
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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