If I become a flittering ninny,

[synapticjava]

It's because I'm reading The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault. I'm on page 8, and I have to read to page 130 by tomorrow evening. I've been reading for over an hour. This is seriously difficult stuff, theory aside. I feel like a short-bus rider trying to get through it. If you're unfamiliar with Foucault or queer/sexuality theory at all, I offer you a quote that I had to reread 12 times before I could piece together it's meaning:

"The affirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the gradiliquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, subvert the law that governs it, and change its future."

Can someone IM me some Red Bull? I have a feeling it's going to be a long night.

Comments

[caviling]

If it makes you guys feel any better, this semester I get to read a book by Baudrillard called Forget Foucault.

[(Anonymous)]

Haha.

Actually, Foucault is one of those theorists I consistantly bitch about having to read butreallykindofenjoy.

[wildflowerfever.livejournal.com]

Oops. That was me.

Deep down I think I was ashamed to admit that.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Hmm...intriguing.