/lit/ - Literature

>>19007660
> At the border of a field, he had obtained a few caresses from a little girl, just as he had done before and seen done by the village urchins round about him; for, at the edge of the wood, or in the ditch by the road leading to Saint-Nicolas, they would play the familiar game called ‘curdled milk.’ So he was pointed out by the girl’s parents to the mayor of the village, reported by the mayor to the gendarmes, led by the gendarmes to the judge, who indicted him and turned him over first to a doctor, then to two other experts who not only wrote their report but also had it published. What is the significant thing about this story? The pettiness of it all; the fact that this everyday occurrence in the life of village sexuality, these inconsequential bucolic pleasures, could become, from a certain time, the object not only of a collective intolerance but of a judicial action, a medical intervention, a careful clinical examination, and an entire theoretical elaboration.

Unities like gender are being deconstructed and abandoned. History and tradition are judged to be antiquated conceptions of inferior minds. Complete disregard for principles in almost every discourse, encapsulated by the "YOLO" philosophy. It's a veritable free-for-all of what qualifies as truth. FAKE NEWS. It's all relative!

I just picked up Baudrillard's Simulcra and Simulation but I see it was written in 1981, Foucault died in the 70s obviously - any recos for more contemporary material in the vein of postmodernism?

>>18144231

It seems like his tackles a lot of subjects like sex, madness, prisons, but I am interested in something like power dynamics, general sociology, something broadly applicable. Any recommendations?

*rapes your kid*

>question every structure
>except the ones we are trying to establish

Why do people care about these rebranded 'post-modern' sophists again?

to this!

>>15694975
>transcends the fascist discourse of AIDS medical research and psychiatry
>becomes a mentally ill nymphomaniac masochistic faggot
>dies of AIDS
based

are his books valuable to a fascist? will I learn how to control discoursive power to achieve fascist goals?

>breaks out of the fascist discourse of AIDS medical research
based

>>15381200
Why do you state that as a matter of fact? You've already admitted to never reading his stuff, so really you can't make that kind of judgement about a "political philosopher"

Maybe this retard will interest you dumb boomer

why do leftists misunderstand him? he completed Nietzsche's brilliant critique of enlightened moral Reason, applying the same rules to human/social sciences which - despite their pretense of objectivity and non-partisanship - are actually political and subjective. so why do leftists still insist on their moralizing tone and substantiate their cases for legal abortion with appeals to embriology, biology etc. and yet often will namedrop Foucault who BTFOed and refuted the superficial objectivity of this reasoning?

>>15318446
Biopolitics solves the is-ought distinction

>French man unknowingly creates an undefinable and convoluted hydra-like strawman of the concept of "power", goes insane and dies
Why are bagu*ttes this dumb?

Foucault didn't lose his mind when he became a neoliberal at the end of his life. He correctly identified that free markets would shred everything conservatives loved. How were conservatives so stupid to fall for the neoliberalism meme?

Foucault was gay.

even on 4chan threads that discuss it are immediately deleted and the OP, banned.
very weird when 4chan is considered a free speech haven, and considering it's history

there are people who think being attracted sexually or in any other way to a 15 year old is "paedophilia" and warrents a visit to the psyche ward.

this goes against basic human biology.

Is any of his stuff worth reading?

>>14056382

dick? good

>getting fucked in the ass by niggers
>supporting Iran revolution
Is there a bigger cuck than him?