[lbo-talk] Re: Fidel

[Michael Hoover]

On 12/28/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Michael Hoover wrote:
> > for miller, foucault's
> > *passion* (which serve as the book's title: _the passion of michel
> > foucault_) is an obsession with sex.
>
> I'm far away from the book right now, so I can't check this, but as I
> recall the "passion" was for a variety of "limit experiences,"
> whether inspired by Artaud, the heads-on-sticks branch of French
> Maoism, or the fistfuckers at the Mineshaft.
> Doug
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yeah, yeah, yeah, that extreme adventure thing, flirting with death
and all that (phrase *limit-experience* is so extremely meaningless
even as it has been so intellectually chic)...

miller's focus is the sex and why not, after all, what is the orgasm
but a *little death*...   mh