Does Michel Foucault have interesting ideas?
>>25235612he does, but he writes in an extremely french academic style. i recommend this Mark Driscoll book for Foucault style analysis that's less painful to read. or River of Dark Dreams, about slavery in the Mississippi valley.
>>25235612Sometimes, yeah. I am 90% certain at least some of his books are primarily intended as porn, especially Discipline and Punish. History of Sexuality is my favourite as legitimate literature.
do you have interesting interpretations?
>>25235612Yes but he's intentionally difficult to read. It was the style at the time in France You also can't read Foucault without keeping in mind that he is homosexual
>>25235654What part of discipline and punish is porn?
>>25235663all this talk of soldiers' bodies is making me blush
>>25235663The descriptions of the executions, obviously.
>>25235667Well there goes separating art from the artist
>>25235612Yes, very much so. Discipline & Punish is an excellent book. >>25235626>>25235662I find these comments strange. He isn't difficult to read, to me, at all, and thats not a humble brag. What's difficult about it
>>25235750They are probably autistic and just dislike the way Focault writes
>>25236143I'm autistic and have two of his books. I dunno.
>>25235626>>25235662He's incredibly easy to read, he writes in very plain language.
>>25235667This is not difficult to read and it's not pornographic. Are you all gay retards?
No, he doesn't. He only wrote one worthwhile book, The Order of Things, and that is just him copying structuralism. Everything after that is just agitprop.
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Interesting ideas is probably underselling it. He basically solved history (sorry, genealogy) since the enlightenment by saying "progress is impossible FUCK YOU"Cool guy. Shame about the noncery.
>>25235612Foucault is probably the most high IQ person to ever exist since Nietszche.Like every tragic hero of antiquity however, he had his Achilles heel, his Bathsheeba, and that was bussy, and it led to his death.
I’ve never really understood why he is so highly regarded in humanities departments, given his view that the ‘human sciences’ inevitably produce knowledge that hardens into authority, and that authority quietly reorganizes itself as power over those it claims to enlighten.Also they need to stop trying to teach this stuff to undergraduates. it goes right over their heads.
>>25235662Apparently the translations arent very good. Anyway, Foucault’s obscurantism has created an industry of secondary texts that keep people with useless qualifications in gainful employment.
>>25236521>I’ve never really understood why he is so highly regarded in humanities departments, given his view that the ‘human sciences’ inevitably produce knowledge that hardens into authority, and that authority quietly reorganizes itself as power over those it claims to enlighten.They know. Its by design.
>>25235612this post is the ultimate pseud filter, as anyone who says "no" is clearly, irreversibly retarded
>>25236521>I’ve never really understood why he is so highly regarded in humanities departments, given his view that the ‘human sciences’ inevitably produce knowledge that hardens into authority, and that authority quietly reorganizes itself as power over those it claims to enlightenThey relish in their power as midwives of despair
>>25235612sex with children
>>25235612AIDS denial
>>25235612Anti-vaxism
>>25235612retroactively refuted by Edmund HusserlNo, I will not elaborate
It's kinda interesting how we're seeing Foucault's claim that enlightenment-era notions of humanity are disintegrating play out in real time with techbros like Sam Altman saying that humans are wasteful and redundant because they're not as productive as AI. Wasn't the whole purpose of rehabilitating the convict in D&P to make him an obedient worker who doesn't burn down the factory?
>>25235612getting fisted in gay bathhouses must've been the most interesting idea Foucault ever had
No, he just has a more erudite way of saying the "Everything is Bullshit" argument you heard from literally every teenage self-proclaimed nihilist in school growing up.
>>25238660>humans are wasteful and redundant because they're not as productive as AImost ai pump out utter trash and require gigawatts of power and a small river of water to operate. if ai was more efficient than humans, ai companies would be making money instead of losing billions of dollars.
>>25236521Academics don't think they're the authority. They think it's the managerial class who employs them that counts as the authority. This viewpoint is somewhat sensible today now that academia has been whacked by workforce casualisation.
>>25235612Anyone know about Frédéric Gros? He's apparently a Foucauldian and I've seen his books in some shops. Is he a worthwhile read or pop phi?
>>25239234no he is a son of nietzsche and so says everything is power
