Word: foucault
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, everyone has heard these arguments before. But the way we compensate for this luxury may be even worse. We invent for ourselves a false liberalism--one of Foucault and excessively correct speech, not one of the inner city and poverty. We talk about past injustices, not about the ones happening today--ones we allow to continue. We talk about how to refer to female police officers, rather than how to make the police a more effective force. Newspapers write about racial diversity, but rarely talk about economic diversity...
...visible subtexts in Basquiat's work," intones one, "he is as close to a Goya as American painting has ever produced." "The paintings are alive and speak for themselves," cries another, "while Jean remains wrapped in the silent purple toga of Immortality." A third, between decorative quotes from Michel Foucault, extols Basquiat's "punishing regime of self-abuse" as part of "the disciplines imposed by the principle of inverse asceticism to which he was so resolutely committed." Resolute commitment to inverse asceticism, apparently, is p.c. for addiction...
While most academics fill their books with arcane reference and convoluted lingo, hooks is fresh, direct and comprehensible; she is probably the only feminist theorist and cultural critic who quotes Marvin Aye often as Michel Foucault...
...main problem with English departmentstoday, Paglia argued, is that criticism no longerhas any reference to historicism. She stronglycriticized "trendy people in cultural studiescenters who believe that the world was created by[Michel] Foucault...
...need to liberate the young from Foucault,[Jacques] Derrida and [Jacques] Lacan--from thisFrench theory crap," she said...