Ladies and Gentlemen, Michel Foucault:

[celestialfray]

"The panoptic mechanism is not simply a hinge, a point of exchange between a mechanism of power and a function; it is a way of making power relations function in a function, and of making a function function through these power relations."

-Discipline and Punish


Imagine reading pages and pages of that.


Yes, this is me procrastinating. Having a continuous connection is both a curse and a blessing. This distraction is probably saving my sanity but prolonging the torture.

Comments

[dkissam.livejournal.com]

Thing with Foucault is, I think he has to simmer in your head for about two years. Then one day you'll remember him, and you'll totally get it. It's bizarre. I think he's simultaneously overrated and underrated. I totally get that sentence now, but I didn't when I was in grad school.

But one terrific thing? There's nothing in Foucault you can't apply to Buffy. =)

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[celestialfray.livejournal.com]

I hope so. There's been an occasional moment where I think he's on to something but then that feeling goes away.


Heh, and Buffy is that magical balm that can make anything more palatable. Too bad I didn't have that Buffy Philosophy book when I was actually taking philosophy.