Whats Veeky Forums opinion on his work?

Why do you think he was sympathetic toward Khomeini?

Power bottom with masochistic leanings.

I doubt he was serious.

The thing we need to understand about that generation of French intellectuals, about Foucault, Debord and Baudrillard, is that they became public intellectuals at a time when it truly seemed that conservatism was invincible. The Golden Age of Capitalism that followed World War II made revolutionary communism unfeasible in the West, the dominance of conservative Gaullism in France further annoyed intellectuals (compare it with UK or the U.S., when progressives had an open avenue for political power so they were less butthurt about "the Establishment"). That's the context of postmodernism and post-structuralism. It was supposed to offer intellectual ammunition against a stable conservative establishment where political and economical arguments had lost credibility against the positive achievements of the government.

Now it has all changed. The conservative establishment, for different reasons depending on the country, was wiped out across the Western world, and the generation that grew reading Deleuze and Guattari is in power. So all these ideas are no longer useful to them. It is useful to reactionaries who want to criticize the current establishment but do not have good political and economical arguments, though.

>I doubt he was serious.
There are ostensibly left-wing intellectuals glorifying the Islamic State and gloating about the Paris Massacres RIGHT NOW.
They praised Che and Lenin and Stalin and Pol Pot and Hezbollah and Ben Laden, why wouldn't they be serious about the others?

What would he think about SJW?

>ostensibly
That is the essence of Foucault. Also zizek, but let's not muddle things. I wouldn't say old fucko was conservative, but there is a certain Hegelian dialectic to the way he presents himself and understanding what his intent was.

I don't know who is but judging from the pic looks like some type of pretentious,modernist manic depressive "philosopher" commie with shit for brains

He would probably call them Victorian prudes, smoke some hash and laugh about it because the opinions of women too ugly to get the dick are suppressed by the cultural hegemony of his cultural hegemony of his hard gay lifestyle. That is, being in a position of power bottom, he controls the knowledge of dick.

He actually triggered communists. Sartre and Beauvoir hated him for his attempt to move "past" Marx, and Foucault said Marx is dead.

Fucking phone. *Cultural hegemony of his suppressed culture

Constantine of course you defend the gay philosopher, you hope he'll liberate you trannies

Let's not forget Foucault said rape should not be considered a sexual crime, just a minor form of physical assault if anything. He thought sex should be completely legally unregulated.

Eh? I'm not a tranny

Yes you are you're a girl who pretends to be male

the absolute madman

Uh, even if that *were* the case, that hardly constitutes being a transsexual if it's solely online and for practical reasons.

Let's Forget Foucault because desire and power are interchangeable and there are better ways to piss off deleuze and guattari.

Foucault also defended madness, suggesting the conception of insanity was oppressive, and that madness is just a type of eccentricity.

the absolute eccentric

So what is the best way to learn Foucault?

There's actually a pride parade for mentally ill people in France. I mean people who spent some time in an institution, not the more benign and socially-accepted forms of mental illness.

Yeah, he wouldn't approve of that though. He would say it was reinforcing madness as something which exists.

Search some videos on youtube or you might get a little lost
Thats what i did
Yeah i now im a pleb
Now i started reading Surveiller et punir

Why is Foucault's ideas always considered 'left'? Why havn't elements of the right taken his ideas?

I find it odd that the idea of the 'systematic oppression' of the right is so prevalent when the very idea of 'systematic oppression' is a systemic oppression from the Left.

There's anti modernist right, and modernist right, but there's not a significant enough postmodern right yet. If there were, they would definitely utilize him.

because fucko was from the good guys and right is the bad guys you sheep

Whatever the fag riding the coattails of gamergate is doing looks pretty postmodern.

>implying the next great thinker isnt already among us

>alt-right is postmodern
Nah

Agreed. But why doesn't the right use postmodernism to take down the 'Postmodern' Left.

To me, the 'Postmodern' left just use postmodernism to attack the meta-narratives of the right, which they quickly substitute with their own. Why is there never a postmodern critique of these meta-narratives?

Where is he? i miss his videos

Because tribal identification is more important than the ideas themselves.

Foucault hanged aroung left-wing intellectuals and his work is filled with Marxist shibboleths, so he is considered part of the left. He did consider himself part of the left too, and his end goal was always "the Revolution", just like with every other left-wing intellectual. He just had different ideas about how to reach this goal.

>Why havn't elements of the right taken his ideas?

Again. Stupidity and tribalism. The right is still masturbating over the Sokal affair, even though Alan Sokal was a leftist himself, and his kind of positivism is way more dangerous to conservative and traditionalism in the long-term than anything the postmodern left can conjure.

According to that book by Stephen Hicks, postmodernism is inherently leftist.

But according to Richard Wolin, postmodernism is actually about reactionary ideas taking over the left. So it can easily "return home" and become accepted by the anti-Enlightenment right, which includes both the alt-right and neoreaction.

press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7705.html

> One of the crucial elements underlying this problematic right-left synthesis is a strange chapter in the history of ideas whereby latter-day anti-philosophes such as Nietzsche and Heidegger became the intellectual idols of post-World War II France--above all, for poststructuralists like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. Paradoxically, a thoroughgoing cynicism about reason and democracy, once the hallmark of reactionary thought, became the stock-in-trade of the postmodern left.7 As observers of the French intellectual scene have frequently noted, although Germany lost on the battlefield, it triumphed in the seminar rooms, bookstores, and cafés of the Latin Quarter. During the 1960s Spenglerian indictments of "Western civilization," once cultivated by leading representatives of the German intellectual right, migrated across the Rhine where they gained a new currency. Ironically, Counter-Enlightenment doctrines that had been taboo in Germany because of their unambiguous association with fascism--after all, Nietzsche had been canonized as the Nazi regime's official philosopher, and for a time Heidegger was its most outspoken philosophical advocate--seemed to best capture the mood of Kulturpessimismus that predominated among French intellectuals during the postwar period. Adding insult to injury, the new assault against philosophie came from the homeland of the Enlightenment itself.

What exactly is his 'depraved' philosophy?

What's the best, most comprehensive book to start with reading Foucault?

His histories are the best. Discipline and Punish or Madness and Civilization. history of sexuality after that. It's really up to you where to start though. Madness and then Birth of the Clinic will give you the best feel for what he is doing, but I like Discipline for the way he applies his particular philosophies. The rest is either shit or wank depending on who you ask.

there's literally nothing wrong with oppression

Sam Hyde was post-alt right when the alt right didn't even start yet.

Dont ever again post in my thread without before defining alt right and post-alt right.
opression created marxism so fuck you

>opression created marxism so fuck you
too little oppression allows marxism to exist

I assume Veeky Forums is familiar with alt right.. Post-alt right is what happens after Trump.

where theres oppression there will be a force against oppression
t.michel foucault

you can't react to oppression if you've been oppressed dead

t. unga bunga, inventor of sharp stick

:^)
Go to africa then you fucking mongol
We civilization here

Same for Zizek.
Lots of right wingers read and dig Zizek.

>t. future death camp graduate

ok

This is on par with "nazi's moved to the US to become NASA and thus control America" conspiracy theories.

being a transexual just is identifying as the opposite sex. It doesnt matter if it's online or offline, it's transexualism

Not what he is saying at all.

The argument is that it's odd that the Left has started running with the counter-enlightenment ideas that they used to fight against