/lit/ - Literature

This is the most unreadable pile of shit I've ever subjected my eyes to.

There's absolutely zero reason to write in the style he employed, except to hide the fact that he had no actual point to make and was more interested in promoting his status as a celebrity. At best, underneath all the obscurant bullshit, it makes very basic and self-evident points. At worst, it teaches its readers to not rock the boat while denying any authoritarian tendencies.

It's completely unoriginal and completely neutral, like the color beige, or milk. The book amounts to very little, and when it does, it then proceeds to contradict itself. Its inflated status is symptomatic of the inability for anyone to identify real talent in an academic environment which equates obfuscation with intelligence.

>>3727826

I am. I've got this on the go right now. It's pretty good.

>claims that penal codes are the result of the evolution of monarchical/authoritarian forms of punishment (i.e, the spectacle) to democratic/capitalist ones (fines and prisons)
>ignores postwar France, a democratic/capitalist society that uses the spectactle (via shaving heads) to punish women who associated with Nazis
>ignores Nazi Germany, an authoritarian regime that avoided the spectacle altogether and kept concentration camps/prisons behind closed doors
>ignores the Byzantine Empire, which, despite being authoritarian, used penal codes (see: Justinian Code)
>ignores the Burgundians/Germans, who, despite being monarchical societies, used "capitalist" forms of punishment like fines to punish "crimes against the sovereign" like murder (see: Wergeld)
>cited as a prominent french intellectual and historian

Why does anyone take this retard seriously?

ITT: Subversive Literature

try to read Discipline and Punish and fuel your rage

>Foucault challenges the commonly accepted idea that the prison became the consistent form of punishment due to humanitarian concerns of reformists, although he does not deny those. He does so by meticulously tracing out the shifts in culture that led to the prison's dominance, focusing on the body and questions of power. Prison is a form used by the "disciplines", a new technological power, which can also be found, according to Foucault, in schools, hospitals, military barracks, etc. The main ideas of Discipline and Punish can be grouped according to its four parts: torture, punishment, discipline and prison.

This. First few chapters especially.

>>1583058

It's interesting that you should troll in this way, since it actually mimics some of the things I was criticising about French critical theory, in that it restates the same thing, in a slightly different manner which adds nothing but new style, new surface. As Baudrillard and Deleuze bothe said: the troll is the new referent, and the new object of study.

What is the troll, when the troll can become the thread? One is dependent on the other, but would like to kill the other. Here we find the concept of Aufbehungingen, which Wittgenstein defined as "that which depends upon something else while simultaneously rendering the original meaningless". Like the introduction to Moby Dick which explais the entirety of the novel and interprets it for the reader, so the troll battens onto the thread, tries to kill it and then comes to depend upon the thread for its very existence.

Or something similarly French sounding.