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Shuvadip Das posted an Question
June 15, 2020 • 02:51 am 30 points
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What is the Michel Foucault's concept of 'Depthlessness'?

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    Deb dulal halder Halder best-answer

    Depthlessness is a post modern concept which celebrates superficiality as we live in a world where the depth is lost and we are encountered with superficiality all around. Jameson talks about this superficiality from a sociological point of view and shows how the apparent utopian visions are being replaced by the simulacra.

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    Deb dulal halder Halder Best Answer

    Michel Foucault while taking about the gothic fiction uses the term depthlessness to talk about the writings of Sade where he states that Gothic fiction is like a heterotopias – a countersite where Utopian vision is countered and inverted. Here depthlessness refers to the way the readers are transported to the world of fancy which is a dangerous separation from reality.

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