Re: [Foucault-L] Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary sexual politics andFoucault

Godard basically heaps scorn on Foucault and the trendy The Order of
Things in his film La Chinoise. He also criticises Foucault in an
interview somewhere. I'm away from my books and will see if I can
chase down the reference later. As far as I know Foucault does not
refer to Godard.

On 03/10/2007, martin hardie <martin.hardie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> deleuze dealt with goddard i think
> maybe have a look there and work back to foucault
> m
>
> On 02/10/2007, Sean Saraka <saraka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Since no one has responded to your message yet, I'll bite, though I'm not
> > bringing any real information to the table here. But I can say this--I've
> > watched a lot of Godard, and I can't really recall ever picking up any
> > solid
> > Foucauldian resonances, myself. The political films of the late
> > 60's/early
> > 70's are clearly influenced by the Althusser and the Maoism of '68, and in
> > my--again, unstudied--opinion, that's about as close as Godard ever gets
> > to
> > Foucault. Godard's later work I personally tend to associate with Derrida
> > or the Frankfurt School, rather than Foucault--although Derrida made an
> > interesting comment in this respect.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sean


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