That's a rather funny quote and a witty revision.
Except, I think ignorant people would confound the logic of those statements
by saying Lacan and Foucault are not worth being accorded such a high status
in thought or culture and are below even Stephen King!
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> This post is just to have some fun rather than anything serious.
>
> I came across this rather funny quote from Zizek on another list and
> thought it might be fun to rewrite it with Foucault as the end point.
>
> Zizek
>
> If a person renounces Stephen King, soon Hitchcock himself will
> appear to him dubious, and from here it is just a step to a disdain
> for psychoanalysis and to a snobbish refusal of Lacan. How many
> people have entered the way of perdition with some fleeting cynical
> remark on Stephen King, which at the time was of no great importance
> to them, and ended by treating Lacan as a phallocentric obscurantist!
> (Slavoj Zizek. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through
> Popular Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.p. viii)
>
> Here's my Foucault version
>
> If a person renounces 'The Prisoner' [TV series], soon George Orwell
> himself will appear to him dubious, and from here it is just a step
> to a disdain for genealogy and to a snobbish refusal of Foucault. How
> many people have entered the way of perdition with some fleeting
> cynical remark on 'The Prisoner', which at the time was of no great
> importance to them, and ended by treating Foucault as a nihilistic
> postmodernist!
>
>
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> Clare
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