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Now that Obama's spying on us, I figured it's time to start reading this handsome devil. Should I start with Discipline & Punish?

>> No.3917349

Start with The Order of Things. His most accessable work.

>> No.3917345

It's a good introduction, and unfortunately relevant. Probably my favorite work of his actually. I'd be interested in reading someone connecting the contemporary expansions of the panoptican state to wear Foucault left off, from traffic cameras and shoe removals at airports to domestic drones and population wide scanning of emails and text messages.

Do you think there's anyway to stem the tide of federal scrutiny short of violent revolution?

>> No.3917350

>>3917345
>wear
>where

fuck off I'm exhausted

>> No.3917372

"Foucault has a head like a fucking orange."
-Richard Dawkins

>> No.3917380

Read some Orwell and Huxley if you're in the mood for such kind of things

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>>3917372
>Richard Dawkins

>> No.3917444

>>3917345
>Do you think there's anyway to stem the tide of federal scrutiny short of violent revolution?
Who knows, a broad movement against universal spying might achieve something. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Americans particularly care.

>>3917349
Will check it out along with Discipline & Punish. Thanks.

>>3917380
I've read both and would like something a bit more theoretical.

>> No.3917461

>>3917380
Or, may I suggest We by Yevgeny Zamyatin?

>> No.3917485

Yeah, because a gulag loving AIDS spreading communist piece of shit sure will have a lot to say about it.

>> No.3918061

I just started reading Discipline & Punish, it's pretty good so far.

>> No.3918702

All I've read by Foucault is his late stuff on the genealogy of neoliberalism, his lectures at the College De France on the subject are published in two volumes: Security, Territory, Population; and The Birth Of Biopolitics.

These are quite dry reading, but an excellent example of his method. It gives you a real impression of the power of the genealogical method. Read it if you're interested in neoliberalism - everyone talks about it these days and it's a cliche, but Foucault was ahead of his time critiquing the emerging neoliberal orthodoxy in the late 1970s.

>> No.3918716

what do you expect?
he has nothing to offer.