Comments on: ‘Beyond Foucault’ awarded ‘research-essential’ classification http://foucaultnews.com/2012/06/16/beyond-foucault/ Activity relating to the work of French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: seymourblogger http://foucaultnews.com/2012/06/16/beyond-foucault/#comment-1051 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:10:07 +0000 http://foucaultnews.wordpress.com/?p=2041#comment-1051 As always this socks me in the stomach. I read the excerpt of David Foster Wallace’s Pale King in Rolling Stone. The part about the IRS and it chilled me to the bone. I read it before I was immersed in Foucault so retroactively I see it through the Panopticon of Foucault.

Are her questions rhetorical for what she is going to describe to us? Or is she genuinely asking them? If so, how can she as she must have read Discipline and Punish, the most horrifying of his works for me to read.

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