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[d_aulnoy]

Unscientific poll: when you hear the name "Foucault," which one do you think of?

A) Michel, the philosopher-critic.

B) Leon, the physicist.

C) Jeffrey, the singer-songwriter.

D) Annick, the dominatrix.

(Also?  I am immensely amused that Annick Foucault's personal philosophy of liberated sexuality is inspired by none other than ... Gilles Deleuze.)

Comments

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

Michel first, then Jeffrey. much love for both!

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

I have some sort of constitutional issue managing to pronounce Jeffrey's last name correctly and always substitute the pronunciation of Michel's.

So I guess A, except when C.

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

some sort of constitutional issue managing to pronounce Jeffrey's last name correctly and always substitute the pronunciation of Michel's.

me too! although I've heard how J pronounces it, my mind blanks it out, and M's pronunciation comes up instead.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Wait ... so what *is* the alternate pronunciation?

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Because all of the things popping into *my* head seem ... dirty.

[kayselkiemoon.livejournal.com]

*laughs* the time I heard it (said by Peter Mulvey), it sounded like "Foe - colt" (he was referencing "the Foucault family haircut *g*).

as for Michel Foucault, I've read only a little of his work, so perhaps if I waded through masses of it I'd be bothered.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

All I can remember it is that it actually ends in a t sound. So, when I start with one pronunciation and finish with the other, it's not pretty.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Michel; I think I may have heard of Leon, but not the other two.

[prosewitch.livejournal.com]

I think of Michael, but now I am intensely curious about Annick.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Michel. I had no idea any of the others existed.

Let me clarify: I think of Michel, and then I rush to expunge the thought from my brain, because his writing irriates me so.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Hee. With you on that one ....

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

Me too neither. (By which I mean I think of Michel because I haven't heard of the others.)

But I kind of like Michel--or at least the little of him I've read (and the even less of him I thought I understood). It was a long time ago, and I was under the philosophical influence of the Evil Ex, so this may be just an illusion.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

A, since I had never heard of the others.

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

B, primarily because of Umberto Eco, followed closely by A.

[alice-ayers.livejournal.com]

A.

[erica-ac.livejournal.com]

I think of A & do a small inner jig because I'm not applying his theory to anything at the moment (and probably will never have to do so again).

[sadira42.livejournal.com]

A. I don't think I've ever heard of any of the others. I fail at life!

[owlfish]

I'm a rebel! Leon, then Michel.

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Michel!

(And I always think of the Gogol Bordello lyrics, "I know it all from Diogenes, to the Foucault / from Lozhechkin to Passpartu")

Except who the hell is Lozhechkin?

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Whoever the Foucault Pendulum Foucault was. Leon, I suppose.