Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: I like this riff on Foucault

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: I like this riff on Foucault

I like this riff on Foucault

by Mike Klonsky

Michel Foucault

Twenty-five years ago you couldn't cocoa your cappuccino without someone accusing you of floating a signifier, much less close down the, ahem, discourse with a simple "I prefer my coffee that way". Who is this mythic "I", the theorists wanted to know, and how could he presume to know what he prefers? Has he forgotten he's as fictional as Oliver Twist or Mrs Dalloway? Doesn't he know that his likes and dislikes are