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Alibey1917 Posted 4 years ago
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The nomination and segregation of unreason

"With Foucault we may retrace the genealogy of modern reason through the description of the nomination and segregation of unreason." (Franco Berardi, The Second Coming)


I couldn't fugure the emphasized part out, can you rephrase it?


  

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alibey1917 I couldn't fugure the emphasized part out, can you rephrase it? I guess to claim to understand this, one would have to have read that homosexual child molester Foucault. But I suppose Berardi is using "nomination" in the sense of naming, and "segregation" in the sense of winnowing or sorting.

  • alibey1917 I couldn't fugure the emphasized part out, can you rephrase it?
  • I guess to claim to understand this, one would have to have read that homosexual child molester Foucault.
  • But I suppose Berardi is using "nomination" in the sense of naming, and "segregation" in the sense of winnowing or sorting.
  • I suppose "the genealogy of modern reason" would be the chain of ideas that led to the present view of reason as defined by our illustrious thinker at some point, no doubt.
  • He wrote "retrace" where he meant "trace", displaying a lack of fluency or intellect that casts doubt on everything he writes, to my mind.
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alibey1917I couldn't fugure the emphasized part out, can you rephrase it?

I guess to claim to understand this, one would have to have read that homosexual child molester Foucault. But I suppose Berardi is using "nomination" in the sense of naming, and "segregation" in the sense of winnowing or sorting. I suppose "the genealogy of modern reason" w

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alibey1917

"With Foucault we may retrace the genealogy of modern reason through the description of the nomination and segregation of unreason." (Franco Berardi, The Second Coming)


I couldn't fugure the emphasized part out, can you rephrase it?

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