oh, foucaultpaws!

[simon_stylites]

In this article I'm reading, "What is an author?", Foucault uses (in translation) the term "family resemblances" and the term "game" to describe writing... but then he goes and whines about "the problematic nature of the word 'work' and the unity it designates." Apparently he hasn't read Wittgenstein after all! Well, it's 1969... No, surely he'd

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[nonniemous]

MAybe I don't know enough to get everything you're talking about, but you should be soundly *thwapped* with a dead fish for that subject line!

I've read a teeny bit of Foucault, and always meant to read Wittgenstein, but keep getting distracted by other things.

[simon_stylites]

I wonder who teaches the Wittg. class now that the guy that Seth and I took it from has died...

Does the "oh, ___paws!" meme mean something outside of the circle where I got it from? I had no idea!