Much of his writing is a patois of heavy handed theoretical quandaries and seemingly solipsistic ruminations muddied by Baudrillard's fascination with the obscure. A ceaselessly discursive road of infinite digression and generalization (some of which is just plain wrong), it is safe to say if power in its 20th century, Foucauldian conception has disappeared, it is because coherence and logic as governance has disappeared from philosophy. Every paragraph, every sentence is a new itch on my back, just barely out of reach, and no amount of eye-straining can make sense of this convoluted pile of speculative, pataphysical sophistry. Gosh I love this guy. The interviews revealed a similar attitude, wherein B seems to repeat the same simple tenants over and over (seduction & disappearance, seduction & disappearance) no matter what the subject is. Be the first to ask a question about Forget Foucault. If you are unfamiliar with Baudrillard's work, then do not "judge the book by its cover" - as it were. This book is half essay and half interview. US$14.99 (paper ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-041-5). It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality--and of his entire oeuvre--and also an attack on those philosophers In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. From inside the book . Gilles Deleuze and David Lapoujade, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/forget-foucault, International Affairs, History, & Political Science. (Foucault was on the editorial board.) In Baudrillard's eyes, desire and power were interchangeable, so desire had no place in Foucault's work. In any case this is a short book but makes up for it in savagery. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. Jean Baudrillard Forget Foucault. This Semiotext(e) edition of Forget Foucault is accompanied by a dialogue with Sylv?re Lotringer, "Forget Baudrillard," a reevaluation by Baudrillard of his lesser-known early works as a post-Marxian thinker. The unconscious, for example, ceased to exist after Freud theorized it. Baudrillard practices his 'fatal strategy' on the reader's subjectivity, or whatever there is after the crisis of representation spoken of. Having read the book, I checked the comments and was suprised actually. Nicole Dufresne. The 2007 Semiotext(e) edition of this work is divided into three sections. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality-and of his entire oeuvre-and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault. The essay is JB's critique of Foucault. It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality —and of his entire oeuvre—and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. I had read the work under the guidance of Introduction by Sylvere Lotringer covering "And this is exactly the question Baudrillard raises in Forget Foucault-with a vengeance : "But what if Foucault spoke so well. To “forget” Foucault, in Baudrillard’s manner of speaking, is to go beyond Foucault in order to find an additional layer concealed above the clouds of discursive power. As such, Baudrillard exhausts critique — a point taken up in the interviews with Sylvère Lotringer published in Forget Foucault. This book consists of an introduction, the essay "Forget Foucault" itself, and an interview in which Baudrillard discusses his early work, called "Forget Baudrillard." In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was an editor. Forget Foucault (1977) made Baudrillard instantly infamous in France. Baudrillard da öyle diyor, bakıyorsun güzel ama bu güzel hissi bizde uyandıran onun çalışmalarını yerleştirdiği geçip gitmiş zamanın Foucaultean hikâyeye müsait olmasıdır. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2007. To see what your friends thought of this book, Jean Baudrillard's slim and largely unintelligible critical exegesis of Michel Foucault is a largely superficial and smug critique of the late thinker's work on, I like reading Baudrillard because his writing style reminds me of my own: inflammatory, hyperbolic, impatient, and anything but objective or dispassionate. Given that it ends with the interviewer fawning over Baudrillard and his work for several paragraphs, I suspect that I'm not missing much. Introduction to Forget Foucault IN DECEMBER 1976 Jean Baudrillard sent a long review-essay of Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge, recently published in Paris, 1 to the prestigious French journal Critique founded by Georges Bataille. I kept waiting for the "but here is where he goes wrong". It was a devastating revisitation of Foucault's recent History of Sexuality--and of his entire oeuvre--and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary. Pretende Baudrillard, con este pequeño, oscuro y sobreintelectualizado escrito (como todos los demás que hizo), que olvidemos toda una vida de libros y análisis acerca del poder por parte de Foucault. Seemed extremely superficial and out of context to me. There is no better introduction to Baudrillard's polemical approach to culture than these pages, in which Baudrillard dares Foucault to meet the challenge of his own thought. Foucault was asked to reply, but remained silent.