This post is just to have some fun rather than anything serious.
I came across this rather funny quote from Zizek on another list and
thought it might be fun to rewrite it with Foucault as the end point.
Zizek
If a person renounces Stephen King, soon Hitchcock himself will
appear to him dubious, and from here it is just a step to a disdain
for psychoanalysis and to a snobbish refusal of Lacan. How many
people have entered the way of perdition with some fleeting cynical
remark on Stephen King, which at the time was of no great importance
to them, and ended by treating Lacan as a phallocentric obscurantist!
(Slavoj Zizek. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through
Popular Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.p. viii)
Here's my Foucault version
If a person renounces 'The Prisoner' [TV series], soon George Orwell
himself will appear to him dubious, and from here it is just a step
to a disdain for genealogy and to a snobbish refusal of Foucault. How
many people have entered the way of perdition with some fleeting
cynical remark on 'The Prisoner', which at the time was of no great
importance to them, and ended by treating Foucault as a nihilistic
postmodernist!
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regards
Clare
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