Continuing last night's discussion and dissection of Forget Foucault Curious about the dominion of sexuality in a codified, instrumentalized society where the very concept of power finds its logical end, and consequently, its disappearance? Want to partake in understanding the sucker-punch that had Foucault and Deleuze on their heels?
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Last left off around pages 36-40 attempting to clarify Baudrillard's demonstration that bodies under modern capitalism have themselves become primary processes in a "libidinal" economy, and thus find as their secret the principles of capital: "a fantastic extension of the jurisdiction governing private property, for assigning to each individual the management of a certain capital: psychic capital, libidinal capital, sexual capital, unconscious capital" (FF 40).
Now, continuing onward with the primitiveness of brute-force critique necessary to extrapolate value from such a pretentious, convoluted text
>This is what Foucault tells us (in spite of himself): nothing functions with repression (repression), everything functions with production; nothing functions with repression (refoulement), everything functions with liberation. But it is the same thing. Any form of liberation is fomented by repression: the liberation of productive forces is like that of desire; the liberation of bodies is like that of women's liberation, etc. There is no exception to the logic of liberation: any force or any liberated form of speech constitutes one more turn in the spiral of power. This is how "sexual liberation" accomplishes a miracle by uniting in the same revolutionary ideal the two major effects of repression, liberation and sexuality. (FF 40)