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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You just can't discipline yourself, Camille, to sit down and read him. Too bad. Most American intellectuals, Jordan Peterson included, just don't seem to have the discipline to read French po-mo theory.
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Replying to @johndavidebert @PagliaQuotes
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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Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes
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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Replying to @johndavidebert @PagliaQuotes
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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Replying to @KevinShau @PagliaQuotes and
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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Some maturity issues going on here.
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