In fact I wouldn't be surprised if someone called Foucault a "French wannabe
George Orwell"
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> That's a rather funny quote and a witty revision.
>
> Except, I think ignorant people would confound the logic of those
> statements by saying Lacan and Foucault are not worth being accorded such a
> high status in thought or culture and are below even Stephen King!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> regards
>> Clare
>> ************************************************
>> Clare O'Farrell
>> email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
>> website: http://www.michel-foucault.com
>> ************************************************
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"
George Orwell"
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> That's a rather funny quote and a witty revision.
>
> Except, I think ignorant people would confound the logic of those
> statements by saying Lacan and Foucault are not worth being accorded such a
> high status in thought or culture and are below even Stephen King!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> regards
>> Clare
>> ************************************************
>> Clare O'Farrell
>> email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
>> website: http://www.michel-foucault.com
>> ************************************************
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
>
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"