
Forget Foucault
Semiotext (E) (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 1988
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138 pages
978-0-936756-10-3 (ISBN)
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Characterizing it as a 'mythic discourse,' Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault.
Characterizing it as a 'mythic discourse,' Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault. In a torrent of haikus, which can now be seen as classically Baudrillardian, he swirls Foucault's concepts of repression, sexuality, production, consumption, and history around in an intense, and often comical, reversal of forces. Exceeding the boundaries of literary or philosophical critique, Baudrillard writes from beyond the horizon of political thought and in a space of phantasmic speculation, finally 'using' Foucault's terminologies and public significance to launch his own form of occult, philosophical clarity. In the second half of the book, Baurillard meets his match in an interview with Sylvere Lotringer, who teases Baudrillard with his own ideas, in turn making commentaries on subjects as diverse as panic, ecstasy, and May '68.
Characterizing it as a 'mythic discourse,' Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault. In a torrent of haikus, which can now be seen as classically Baudrillardian, he swirls Foucault's concepts of repression, sexuality, production, consumption, and history around in an intense, and often comical, reversal of forces. Exceeding the boundaries of literary or philosophical critique, Baudrillard writes from beyond the horizon of political thought and in a space of phantasmic speculation, finally 'using' Foucault's terminologies and public significance to launch his own form of occult, philosophical clarity. In the second half of the book, Baurillard meets his match in an interview with Sylvere Lotringer, who teases Baudrillard with his own ideas, in turn making commentaries on subjects as diverse as panic, ecstasy, and May '68.
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English
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New York
United States
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Autonomedia
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College/higher education
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Height: 178 mm
Width: 114 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
118 gr
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978-0-936756-10-3 (9780936756103)
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Outlaw sociologist and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard is one of today's most provocative and renowned contemporary social theorists. Baudrillard's The Conspiracy of Art (2005), Utopia Deferred (2006), and Fatal Strategies (1990) are also available from Semiotext(e).