Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews Book

Theory often enters into a certain headspace that i cannot seem to follow...
a great deal of this book is nonsense...the rest is inapplicable hyper-intellectual self-indulgence that borders on the masturbatory...
i'm certain there are those who have derived a profound and deeper understanding of language and culture from this book, i am, unfortunately, not one of them...

postscript:
i'm re-reading this today for my imminent exam...
i find myself re-confirming my earlier words yet softening on them somewhat...foucault genuinely has a lot of important things to say here...it's unfortunate he feels the need to enshroud and inter his ideas in a dense and nearly indecipherable pseudo-erudite veil of turgid language...

be that as it may...
his ideas about transgression and limit are very important to modern cultural theory, as are his thoughts on genealogy...
the analysis he offers on traditional vs. effective historical sense is worth reading the book in itself...
in the end, foucault is not looked upon with such reverence for nothing...he is clearly an important theoretical voice in modernity, however, i think he must sometimes forget the rest of the world aren't all capable of following his particular brand of hyper-intellectual esotericism, which in my opinion can lead those who don't understand him to unfairly, but perhaps justifiably, dismiss him outright...