thenoobyorker said: Totally recommend any combination of those, the reader is the one usually assigned in classes, no?

Probably. In history, we’re always assigned either Discipline and Punish or History of Sexuality because those are the only two that historians ever really cite.

thenoobyorker replied to your post: Who will be the 2016 nominees? I don’t see Biden…

Cory Booker for dictator

thenoobyorker replied to your post: thenoobyorker replied to your post: I’m branching…

Dude Karl Marx thought he was doing Science, that’s like the best joke

Somebody needs to make a picture of Marx holding up a beaker and yelling science.

thenoobyorker replied to your post: I’m branching out from just Marxist humor to…

Marxists don’t have humor (i.e. Terry Eagleton)

You’re saying Marxists are … alienated from humor?

I’m here all week, folks.

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Yeah the comments and replies by Said are interesting as well.

I totally missed those. Thanks.

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By the way is this what you’re referencing: lrb.co.uk/v22/n11…

Yeah. That has to be the oddest thing I’ve ever read by Said.

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Navid is an encyclopedia for all things Iran & Foucault

About five seconds after I posted that, I was like “Yeah, he probably knows all about it.”

thenoobyorker replied to your post: Somebody just needs to throw a copy of Orientalism…

Obama used to chill with Said no?

He went to Columbia when Said was there. I don’t know if they ever crossed paths. He was friends with Rashid Khalidi.

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Reason fest? Hahaha. I no longer want to live in this world.

Yeah, the irony totally escapes them. I follow a few atheists on twitter (I hate myself) and nearly every weekend they’re going to some atheist festival to give talks about how stupid religion is.

Some people need to read up on the French Revolution. They’re trying to repeat the Enlightenment without having any of the sophistication of the Enlightenment writers.

thenoobyorker replied to your post: Militant atheism is also like the ultimate in…

Umm excuse me, remember when Dawkins was banned from giving a talk at a conservative shithole after his interview with Bill O Papa Bear? Atheists did something, they sued. It’s called SCIENCE.

And they have reason fest. Can’t forget that. It’s where they gather and celebrate reason. I think they should make it weekly. Maybe they can even have a reading from the book of the God Delusion and have a lecture on how to more properly science the world.