The Chomsky-Foucault Debate [excerpt, part 1/2]

This is an excerpt from the Chomsky-Foucault debate which was aired on Dutch television in 1971. The moderator seen here is Fons Elder. I am unaware of any full length copies of the original video, however the debate has been reprinted (and translated, of course) several times. For a copy of this debate and several interesting interviews that followed, see Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, _The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature_ (New York: The New Press, 2006).

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[AirForceJuan3]

Holy shit?!

Is that Sarkozy in the audience at 1:12??

[Bernard Parsons]

Foucault is a reverse engineer, Chomsky is an engineer. Any thorough knowledge regardless of whether its creators wanted it to be implemented in a revolutionary way or not is useful and should be respected.

[TheFlolejuif]

If only he had been there at that time and had listen to what was said, then maybe he wouldn't have been such a fascist president

[alayisthenewhipster]

Buset ane selo banget nonton Foucault yang-yangan sama Chomsky

[Benjamin Gillespie]

"His method of freeing himself from these people - of becoming autonomous - was to redescribe the people who had described him. He drew sketches of them from lots of different perspectives - and in particular from lots of different positions in time - and thus made clear that none of these people occupied a privileged standpoint." [cont below]

[Benjamin Gillespie]

[CONT] "Proust became autonomous by explaining to himself why the others were not authorities, but simply fellow contingencies. He redescribed them as being as much a product of others' attitudes toward them as Proust himself was a product of their attitudes toward him."

Richard Rorty. "Contingencies, Irony, and Solidarity"

[MusicalEutopia]

Foucault's French is so clear and enunciated. Foucault always goes for the broader picture.

[Junip Jo Wheeler]

French is ugly seeming to me.

[xpressivist]

LOL so you're mad huh LOL

[cocojumbo555]

Typical pile of ignorant hamburger eating puritan priest cum drinking star spangled pig blubber. LOL! Hiding your fraudulent farce behind pathetically wobbly & painfully stupid, yet firmly babbled affirmations i.e debunked  truisms & a couple of name drops isn't fooling anyone Xp..except yourself maybe. You're noting but a regurgitating parrot, a proud imbecile, just face it! Or else your scam will be busted again, causing you similar -to the one your currently undergoing- public humiliations.

[xpressivist]

a typical french argument: telling people they don't agree with to shut up. well, my response: FUCK YOU! FUCK OFF, YOU IDIOT! LOL