On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Rob Schaap wrote:
> >Moving from right-wing hypocrites to left-wing hypocrites...
> >I heard a rumor in the mid eighties that Michel Foucault was trolling in
> >the bay area having unprotected sex with anyone he could get his hands on
> >in order to spread AIDS for some ideological reason that I can't remember.
> >
> >Can anyone out there substantiate or deny this?
>
> Well, whatever he did, it would have been before June 1984, as that's when
> he died. Perhaps he thought the virus was just a discursive
> transformation, an invention of the power-knowledge nexus? By his lights,
> just about everything else was ...
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
Incredibly cheap shot. To imply that Foucault was denied the ontological reality of AIDS and HIV vividly illustrates your ignorance of his work.
Cheers, Miles.