/lit/ - Literature

>>20142966

>>19460243
ahh yes the "schedule" to increase your "productivity" and social contribution.

>btfos Redbeard's reductive conception of might with a nuanced understanding of power and how it operates

Focault thread

Remember when peterson fags thought he and other post modernists were responsible for destroying society? Good times!

https://vocaroo.com/guITnHdEa4Q

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Foucault & Butler
> sexual control is bad! We need to abolish these oppressive controls
> women are now literally just marketed as holes in music videos, a kid sees crazier porn than prostitutes once saw, unhealthy sexual fetishes are now supported as normal
Derrida
> lets deconstruct everything and get to the basis of it all!
> everything in the world loses it value, academia becomes masturbatory nihilism, all meaningful mythos just turn into products of a time period/bias etc.
Camus and Sartre
> what if everything is like.,.. absurd bro
> accelerates the fetishization of "the philosopher" and "existentialism" and turns it into more of an aesthetic choice rather than a serious discipline.

These are just the worst examples. The fact is, these sort of things are in every major continental figure. None of these people have ever had an idea that made the world better. They are simply obsessed with tearing down what is established simply because it is.

>Be me
>Foucault
>Oppose objective morality
>Die of AIDS

Didn't he retroactively BTFO himself?

He's actually based and anyone that hates him doesn't get it. He's like what Nietzsche should have been.

Fuck trannies

>bro facts don't real
When did you realize postmodernism is just a meme?

What did this guy think about Jews?

Can I get a quick rundown of his theories? Is it true that he supported abolishing age of consent laws?

STEMfag here

I don't like to shit on philo majors too much but how do you guys read that shit? It's so dry and boring and exists only in abstract - it never evolves along with humanity. Fiction can be just as philosophical and entertaining.

So let me get this straight.

>be Foucault
>born from rich doctors and have a great youth
>be emo in your 20s
>wants to kill himself because he's a gay man that's not accepted and can't become a doctor
>dad sends him to the best therapist in France
>proceeds to get better because of therapy
>realises he's more of an academic and also a marxist
>proceeds to spend the rest of his life trying to come up with arguments to support the notion that the modern improvements of western society were actually failures so that he can make marxism excusable
>dies of aids

Did he just have daddy issues because he couldn't get into medicine? And also, why did he try and debunk the thing that cured him of his depression?

>But truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

In what context does he say this? How can anti-Hegelianism be just one of Hegel's tricks? Is it because every new philosophy can be interpreted as just another step towards the Absolute?

Tell me the truth about Foucault, /lit/.
There has been so much rabble rousing around the "postmodernists" what with Peterson and the like blaming them for our collective wrong-think, which made me curious as to what those people were "actually" saying. Starting with Foucault (because he seems to be equally hated here)

So what was the point of his life's work?
Is there anything perennially relevant he came up with that everyone today should know?

4chan osmosis gives me the feeling that he's just a scam artist who's been sanctified as one of the pillars of modern thought by academia, but that is too easy, too reductive. I would really want to give this guy a genuine read but im constantly doubting if diving into his work is really worth it.

>>10815659
>purity

>>10812715
honhonhon

>>10776416
>literally nobody can defeat him in a debate

Alright, i'm going to read a book about Foucault now (because I dont understand him enough to actually read his books). If this thread dies, i'll just make another one tomorrow.

thoughts on this guy

Is English "AIDS" or French "SIDA" a more euphonic term for black comedy?

I'm trying to think of an AIDS joke involving Russia and I'm not quite sure which variant will have the most "I'm going to hell for laughing at this" factor that I want in the joke.

Pic somewhat related.

This is the only picture of Foucault I've ever seen and I always thought he was black.. how embarrassing of me

Hey guys let me make massive sweeping historical statements with no knowledge of classical antiquity!

Hey guys let me posture as a leftist populist while also hiding behind academic jargon!

What a fucking fraud.