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[cimorene]

that was really an astonishingly good lecture, considering how many times she mentioned foucault. 

the bunnies are fecund lately, or perhaps i should say my imagination is.  but my mind is bubbling over with three different infantile tim/gary bunnies, i think, all from today.  and i thought about the eventual re-writing of the method writing project lilah and i are working on quite a bit too.  i'm honestly kind of dreading that, but the method seems to produce a lot more things that you know you're going to have to redo even as you do them the first time. 

...that may be all i've got for now.

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[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Mentioning Foucault is bad? *ponders* Ah well, I guess that depends on the context. I can imagine some situations where mentioning Foucault would be really wrong. :D

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, basically i find foucault really irritating, so as a very general rule of thumb, i can kind of predict i'll find his fans' work irritating too. but in this case... non!

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

I find reading texts by big gurus to be far less irritating than reading/listening to their disciples. Because if the guru has had some sensible ideas, the fankids are sure to garble it up nine times out of ten. The remaining one time out of ten they actually do something clever with the theory, but, yeah... wading through all the crap to get to the good part is just too gruelling.

I've always liked Foucault's concepts of discourse and power, because they are useful tools to make professors think you've actually been paying attention but then, they're massively overused/misused these days.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, heh. it's not his ideas that i find irritating, but a) the way his name gets bandied about and b) the dense, circumlocuting, unnecessarily wordy way he presents them. in other words, he's got a really bad case of academia speak, which i find awfully off-putting. i'm a big fan of clear and concise.* you might even call me an adherent.

*but not in fiction... obviously. heh.