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French intellectual celebs from the period only started talking postmodernism in the 70s and 80s, after Anglos started asking them about it! the idea itself is largely derived from…

Foucault's biggest inspirations were Nietzsche, where Foucault gets the basic notion of power's universal systematicity (everything is already/can be articulated as a master/slave …

great comments and replies in this thread! one thing that it really brings to light for me is that unfortunately, a lot of us in the West just aren't conditioned to receive contine…

very good take here, and it gets to the heart of the issue: Chomsky comes out of the analytic tradition where the goal is to rigorously explain and define everything that can't qui…

yes. the point of my post was that Foucault, rightly or wrongly, has a clear delineation of what counts as fact and what counts as Fact. we can freely debate the ideological implic…