Foucauldian

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(Foucauldian, Agambenian, etc.), and various efforts in science studies and cross-over areas of cognitive science to lead to something fairly radical, and ended with this series of bullet-point "provocative assaults" on received wisdom:

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  • Made-up citation: "As a doctor of philosophy, I am authorized to perform close readings of difficult literature, full-body exorcisms of lonely seafarers, academic presentations on Foucauldian paradigms, and -- in an emergency -- a who-knows-what-ectomy on a graduate student of my choosing." —  Wordlustitude
  • The population which was rendered destitute was 'disciplined and normalized', to use a Foucauldian expression, through these laws. —  Kafila
  • Starting from a critical assessment of the Foucauldian paradigm of discourse analysis, it explores the theoretical scope and political consequences of Žižek's blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist politics. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • By unmasking reality as contingent symbolic fiction, the authors argue, Foucauldian criticism has only deconstructed the world in different ways; the point, however, is 'to recognize the Real in what appears to be mere symbolic fiction' (Žižek) and to change it. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • (Foucauldian, Agambenian, etc.), and various efforts in science studies and cross-over areas of cognitive science to lead to something fairly radical, and ended with this series of bullet-point "provocative assaults" on received wisdom: —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
 

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