Olvidar a Baudrillard: Sawicki, Butler y Preciado como lectoras de Foucault

Abstract

«Forgetting Baudrillard: Sawicki, Bultler and Preciado read Foucault». In this article I confront two ways of approximation to the Foucauldian texts: one primarily exegetic in which such texts are confronted based on the impression of fi nding in them a philosophical system, and another one of ethic/epistemic character in which the Foucauldian corpus is presented as a sum of concepts and analytical criteria useful for the political action. For this I compare works in which both strategies of reading are presented. In the fi rst case I analyze the famous rehearsal by Jean Baudrillard Forget Foucault and in the second case the use that Beatriz Preciado, Judith Butler and Jana Sawicki have made of the Foucauldian work in some of their books to analyze philosophical problems related to the gender and sexuality. Finally I argument in favor of the thesis that privileging one strategy of reading as Butler’s, Preciado’s and Sawicki’s would lead us, before forgetting Foucault, to forget Baudrillard.