You tell 'em, Foucault!

[akashiver]

"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates."

Huh. Huh? Huh.

I'm not quite sure what "espionage takes the place of adventure" means. I suppose it's part of the whole escapist tendancy of heterotopias. Anyway, I kind of want to use this quote in relation to Mieville's The Scar. It seems like it owuld be productive.

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Re: i will again point out that Foucault resembles Christopher Lloyd from the <i>Addams Family</i> f

[petrovnik.livejournal.com]

as historians, we are trained to flee from theory, or curl up in a tight ball in the corner.

or in this case, make it about something other than Foucault as quickly as possible :)