But I don't want to see a movie about Foucault. For one thing, knowing he had AIDS, he spent a fair amount of time having unprotected sex with young men for some kind of radical reason that I don't understand.
So, no, I'll give that a pass. He came to UC Berkeley to give a lecture. Very creepy.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com>
There is definitely something to the "weird" sexual angle of some ( a lot?) of Rand's stuff.
I mean, you could say the same about Foucault -- but Foucault was, like, actually a cool dude. OTOH, Ayn Rand gives me this weird creepy feeling of her own unconsummated sex fantasies being broadcast far and wide via the medium of fiction. Foucault, on the other hand, was like, "Sure, I'm into BDSM and kink, but in no way do I think my personal bedroom activities oughta be extrapolated into some overarching view of how the world's power dynamics oughta be structured!" Bedroom kink does not = extrapolation into worldview about society and how it "ought to be." I don't think Ayn Rand got that. Foucault did.
Someone please make a movie about Foucault! :)
-B.
----- Original Message ----- From: "// ravi" <ravi at platosbeard.org>
I like the alternate history version, Atlas Shagged, where John Galt finally gets laid in Senior year and consequently loses his persecution complex and delusions of grandeur. Completes his major qualifying paper on Aristotelean syllogisms and gets a job as an NBA talent scout. All set to Bollywood dance numbers.
—ravi -------------
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