[jdege]

Foucault's Analysis

Foucault didn't analyze, he played masturbatory word games.

[usurper]

Foucault did not anticipate the birth of yet another modern state where old religious technologies of domination could be refashioned and institutionalized; this was a state that combined a traditionalist ideology (Islam) with the anti- imperialist discourse of the left, but also equipped itself with modern technologies of organization, surveillance, warfare, and propaganda.

I never heard of this idiot, but from what I read he was a typical leftist. Easily seduced by any revolutionary rhetoric. Its not much of a walk to see why France and other leftist in this country are of no help in the WOT.

[Zhangliqun]

"Foucault didn't analyze, he played masturbatory word games."

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Isn't that the job description of "intellectual" anyway? They make a couple, maybe three pithy observations and then suddenly the in-box is empty and they have to manufacture ways to perpetuate their chin-stroking existence. Hence the word games disguised as "insights".

Or as Fr. John Neuhaus put it: "What are intellectuals for but to complexify the obvious?"