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>>12778201
the collected works of Byung-Chul Han come to mind, he bombs on Foucault every chance he can get. i hadn't really realized the degree of influence Hardt & Negri had on this also, not sure if he mentions them. Sloterdijk too, read him.

the impression i get from this is how truly hysterical postmodernity has become, like they've invented this terrible weapon that was suppose to Break The System or something to this effect, which now they are duty-bound to serve and use constantly, such that it makes the rest of the world hate them for doing so, but when you're looking to Michel Foucault for spiritual advice, what else would you produce? in GoT parlance, it's very much like the relation of the CoF to the White Walkers: except of course the CoF would be in our world alive and well and writing policy...the metaphor breaks down, but it's partly because the real story of this confusion and insanity is so complex (and yet also so weirdly simple) it takes a while to see...but once seen, isn't unseen.

it's such a fucking catastrophe. you can see that the Left really is now trapped within a panopticon it itself built completely out of criticism, which has now come to well and truly take precedence over both corporate and government power, and now everybody gets sucked into a world where they are beholden to a mob duty-sworn to 'resist' them, and everybody winds up complying with each other in the most outrageous, paranoid, and zealous ways...truly a story so fucking weird you could never imagine it as fiction, and yet it is exactly what we have wound up doing to ourselves.

also i haven't read this yet but perhaps it will be relevant to your interests.
https://www.mqup.ca/crisis-of-modernity--the-products-9780773544420.php#!prettyPhoto