/lit/ - Literature

>>21028115
>also you shouldn't go to prison for being a gay pedophile

>>20679878
It's not even his final form

>>20568972

Foucault writes that one of the problems of political theory, in regards to Sovereignty, is that power is only ever conceptualized and treated in its centralized form. All too often people become convinced that removing the "Head" of power is enough. No thought is given to the "Body" of power and its various appendages. It's an interesting perspective, but for someone better acquainted with Foucault than myself, why does Foucault insist upon this seemingly anatomical model of power?

>>19367600
How can it be bipolar when I'm never productive
Also I don't trust shrinks

EXPLAIN FOUCAULT TO ME AND DON'T DUMB IT DOWN WHAT THE FUCK IS EPISTEME WHAT THE FUCK IS DISCOURSE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS BIOPOLITICS

All heterosexual sex is rape due to the societal power imbalance between men and women

Where do I start with this, as they call it, "pedophile, racist, colonialist and French imperialist" philosopher?

>his name is Foucault
>he would foucault ight male asshole he could get his baguette encrusted hands on

Books about how liberal democracy is totalitarian and oppressive?

>>16438853
Stop using made up feminist words.

Everything's a prison, man.

Why was he an HIV denialist? Does his philosophy lead to pseudoscientific conspiracy theories?

>be humanities fag with a massively inflated ego
>realize you're not as smart as some, especially people in math and physics
>cope with this fact by fleeing as far away as you can from honest, clear thought
>obsess with specific thinkers instead of specific ideas, start talking about things and their history interchangeably, never clarifying your definitions so you can always weazel out of any counterarguments by insisting on wrong interpretations, start talking about the social effects and causes of ideas rather than the ideas themselves, claim any argument against your position or thinkers you like "miss the context" etc
intellectual dishonesty has ruined the humanities. to fix this we should ban anyone below a certain aptitude in math and physics from even studying these topics. the threat of intellectual dishonesty caused by lack of ability and respect for pure thinking is too great.

>obsessed with power and the ways in which it manifests
>concludes that social constructs are tools of power and oppression
>proceeds to publish countless books- objects that are composed of tens or hundreds of thousands of social constructs in their purest form

>>14738337
>Something is right or wrong no matter what anyone thinks about it.

Ignorance truly is bliss.

>You can't handle my ideas, I'M CRAZY

Why did he turn liberal towards the end of his life?

All heterosexual sex is rape because of the inherent power imbalance between men and women in society.

All heterosexual sex is rape due to the inherent power imbalance between men and women in society

>analyzes your structures of power and analyzes your penis
heh, nothing personnel, kid

All it did was bring forth new forms of dominance and subjugation. Radically de-centred forms of oppression that are focused on our subjective sense of self-hood.

I'm taking a class on Foucault and Zizek next semester. Anything I should know ahead of time?

>inb4 /his/