{"id":5020,"date":"2021-05-26T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2021-05-26T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:25:45","slug":"how-we-forgot-foucault-american-affairs-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/26\/how-we-forgot-foucault-american-affairs-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Forgot Foucault &#8211; American Affairs Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/2021\/05\/how-we-forgot-foucault\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/foucault.jpg?resize=435%2C276&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foucault&#8217;s thinking had an enormous impact on me in the 1990s when I was getting a degree in philosophy, and shaped a lot of my later thinking about performance as Bacchanalia and the creation of ruptured spaces through chaos. I&#8217;ve felt a bit disillusioned with him in recent years because of how his work has been used in critical theory. It&#8217;s very good to be reminded that Foucault can&#8217;t actually be pinned down as a mascot for any particular political agenda. \u201cI think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard . . . : as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/americanaffairsjournal.org\/2021\/05\/how-we-forgot-foucault\/\">How We Forgot Foucault &#8211; American Affairs Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>via Ross Douthat&#8217;s interesting &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/25\/opinion\/michel-foucault.html\">How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foucault&#8217;s thinking had an enormous impact on me in the 1990s when I was getting a degree in philosophy, and shaped a lot of my later thinking about performance as Bacchanalia and the creation of ruptured spaces through chaos. I&#8217;ve felt a bit disillusioned with him in recent years because of how his work has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}