Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
Why Theory
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Foucault's Panoptic Argument
Foucault grew up a, for a long time, was a conservative. He came to radical action very late in his life. When he did, he was very invested in radical politics,. But his theory, if he followed his own theory, he shouldn't have been. I think it's because they glom on to the figure of Foucault, the radical marching, and not what Foucault actually says that they missed that.
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