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Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

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Foucault - Is the Law So Effective in Producing Desire?

Foucault himself shows a fissure within the law's causality, right? Like, it produces a desire that it can't contain. Which is why we need the law needs recourse to impose self surveillance on people, right? So yeah, I don't know what one would say to that. And again, this is one of the things that's so powerful about this book and this chapter: It's really hard to see how you would, how you would fight against it.

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