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  • adjective Alternative form of Foucauldian.

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Foucault +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

    Spencer Green: Terrence Malick Directs the Latest Sarah Palin Documentary Spencer Green 2011

  • January 11th, 2010 at 11: 02 pm cool-dude ironic Foucaultian hipster liberalism

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • It's, like, the only way to subvert a structure's "power/knowledge," as a five-dollar Foucaultian would say.

    Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

  • The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

    Spencer Green: Terrence Malick Directs the Latest Sarah Palin Documentary Spencer Green 2011

  • The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

    Spencer Green: Terrence Malick Directs the Latest Sarah Palin Documentary Spencer Green 2011

  • Mr. Yglesias is demonstrating once again that when it comes down to the wire, his cool-dude ironic Foucaultian hipster liberalism is nothing more then just another flavor of oligarchic capitalism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • It's, like, the only way to subvert a structure's "power/knowledge," as a five-dollar Foucaultian would say.

    Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

  • Mr. Yglesias is demonstrating once again that when it comes down to the wire, his cool-dude ironic Foucaultian hipster liberalism is nothing more then just another flavor of oligarchic capitalism, of the sort that was birthed by the late and unlamented Unitarian slave-rapist Jefferson.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • The documentary has so far received mixed reviews from critics: Julia Tech of the Washington Sun Dial has proclaimed the film "pure propaganda," while Jacques-Louis Louis-Jacques of Fanfaron du Cinema notes: "Its binary transgressive morality deliquesces Arcandian purity and dyspeptic Foucaultian somnambulism, creating a dual-time narrative fissure in which cinema self-possession collapses, rejecting meta-pastiche agitprop for an allegory about the camera's ability to view and be viewed."

    Spencer Green: Terrence Malick Directs the Latest Sarah Palin Documentary Spencer Green 2011

  • Web 2.0 meets Marxist (Foucaultian?) economic theory in the latest video hijinks from Austrian subversive art collective monochrom.

    Boing Boing 2008

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