A review by heliogabalous_vrz
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard

5.0

Really interesting to see someone disagree with foucault who isn't an idiot. Comparing power, the libidinal, and d&Gs conception of desire and contrasting them with his own idea of seduction was interesting as well. I think too many people read this as a straight forward attack on foucault, but baudrillard clearly shows respect for his conception of power and historic account of it, this is obvious if you read baudrillards later work (the agony of power). Baudrillard just seems to argue a few minor historical points, that foucaults work can only be seen as a history of the past and not the present, and that deleuzes notion of desire and foucaults idea of power are actually caused by seduction.