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Bodies and Pleasures
Nov. 13th, 2009 01:13 pmSome quotes I liked from Ladelle McWhorter's book Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (1999).
'I am older and wiser, more patient and sedate*.
(In footnote) * Ask anyone.'
'People who say "just let go and feel the music" are complete idiots.'
'Too many of us - the most highly educated of us especially - assume that if we've read a few books, understood the arguments, and maybe written some words about them here and there, we have therefore undergone those books' radical critiques f the most fundamental truths of our culture. This tendency is probably one of the most obvious vestiges of our resilient Cartesianism. We believe we can change our minds without changing our hearts, without changing our bodies, without changing our lives.'
'I am older and wiser, more patient and sedate*.
(In footnote) * Ask anyone.'
'People who say "just let go and feel the music" are complete idiots.'
'Too many of us - the most highly educated of us especially - assume that if we've read a few books, understood the arguments, and maybe written some words about them here and there, we have therefore undergone those books' radical critiques f the most fundamental truths of our culture. This tendency is probably one of the most obvious vestiges of our resilient Cartesianism. We believe we can change our minds without changing our hearts, without changing our bodies, without changing our lives.'
