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Michel Foucault

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French philosopher who used Bentham's Panopticon as a metaphor for surveillance and social control, though the poster admits to not having read him directly.

Mentions (17)
"They attacked me with the thought-forms of over 100 chudjaks, but I dispatched them easily with my katana, forged for me personally by woke samurai Misheru Fuko."
Do NOT face Sydney Sweeney alone when Astral projecting · u/Dewey_Gland · ↑180 · 2025-07-28
"research academics who takes taxpayer-funded grants to study if the person reading this right now is racist in a foucauldian way or in a nietzschean way"
"People who rag on Mike Fucko are the sort of people who blame the weatherman when it rains. Pretty much everything he described is a necessary consequence of living in a post-death-of-god world. The reality is, he knew in the '60s and '70s what most people are still choking on now, and their knee-je"
"I'm also thinking of all the post structuralists like Adorno and his crankiness and predisposition to call everything fascist, where school is fascist, the military is fascist, movies and TV are fascist, mayonnaise is fascist.. etc. Or Foucault, who thought that everything was about sex and dominati"
"Why have I only seen black and white pictures of him? I thought he was from the 19th century"
Just learned that Michele Foucault died in 1984 · u/AttentionWorldly7899 · ↑39 · 2023-09-29
"Yeah its this concept that the French philosopher Foucault came up with. He took it from some guy named Bentham. Basically it's a circular prison where one guard can watch all the prisoners from a central tower, and the prisoners can't tell they are being watched. The criminals act all nice because "
Wow this thing reminds me of the Panopticon, · u/bibblereader · ↑37 · 2024-08-18
"American students, forget Foucault! Reverently study the massive primary evidence of world history, and forge your own ideas and systems. Poststructuralism is a corpse. Let it stink in the Parisian trash pit where it belongs!"
Favorite Paglia quote? · u/[deleted] · ↑36 · 2022-04-04
"An easy response you can use around pseuds or arthoes to impress them. An example exchange: "No one is talking about the dialectic between incels and thot daughters" "Foucault spoke of this""
"Foucault Spoke of This" · u/candlelightcassia · ↑34 · 2025-08-25
"Yet even then I can think of plenty of former contributors to the Partisan Review who became idiosyncratically conservative or even neocons by middle age, along with Christopher Lasch, Richard Hofstadter, Tolstoy (possibly), Foucault (cannot be denied)."
Do you find that people actually become more conservative as they age? · u/PissingInTheNameOf · ↑33 · 2020-10-18
"there can be alot of theories that could be derive for and from gay men, (foucalt legacy should be revived)"
gay men dont get much appreciation the way they deserve · u/sadean-girl · ↑33 · 2024-06-22
"Why have I only seen black and white pictures of him? I thought he was from the 19th century"
Just learned that Michele Foucault died in 1984 · u/AttentionWorldly7899 · ↑39 · 2023-09-29
"American students, forget Foucault! Reverently study the massive primary evidence of world history, and forge your own ideas and systems. Poststructuralism is a corpse."
Favorite Paglia quote? · u/[deleted] · ↑36 · 2022-04-04
"An easy response you can use around pseuds or arthoes to impress them. An example exchange: "No one is talking about the dialectic between incels and thot daughters" "Foucault spoke of this""
"Foucault Spoke of This" · u/candlelightcassia · ↑34 · 2025-08-25
"there can be alot of theories that could be derive for and from gay men, (foucalt legacy should be revived)"
gay men dont get much appreciation the way they deserve · u/sadean-girl · ↑33 · 2024-06-22
"Michel Foucault"
gay men that inspire me · u/kaplanfish · ↑26 · 2023-06-07
"If identity becomes the problem of sexual existence, and if people think they have to 'uncover' their 'own identity' and that their own identity has to become the law, the principle, the code of their existence"
"Now I'm in college and I'm surrounded by actual smart people who talk about Faust and Foucault and alienation."
How to cope with realizing you're lowkey regarded · u/Apart_Meringue_6913 · ↑21 · 2025-05-09
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