Foucault would both relish the irony but also call it out loud and clear.

福柯会喜欢这种讽刺，但也会大声而清晰地澄清事实。

But is Foucault in fact part of the problem here?

但福柯真的是这个问题的一部分吗？

French philosopher Michel Foucault is one of the most cited thinkers of the 20th Century.

法国哲学家米歇尔·福柯是20世纪最著名的思想家之一。

Unlike Marx or Freud, Foucault didn't believe in all-embracing theories to explain the world.

与马克思或弗洛伊德不同，福柯不相信用包罗万象的理论来解释世界。

Foucault's work is not straightforward or easy to understand.

福柯的作品并不简单易懂。

Foucault’s work is not straightforward or easy to understand.

福柯的作品并不直截了当或易于理解。

Unlike Marx or Freud, Foucault didn’t believe in all-embracing theories to explain the world.

与马克思或弗洛伊德不同，福柯不相信用包罗万象的理论来解释世界。

Foucault—both the careful scholar and the cultural rebel—would sound the alarm about how social media can trap people in echo chambers.

无论是谨慎的学者还是文化反叛者，福柯都会对社交媒体如何将人们困在回音室（网络世界）里发出警告。

Foucault challenges specific social sciences about their underlying assumptions—he does not question all claims to objective truth, like those in maths, for example.

福柯对特定的社会科学的基本假设提出了挑战——他没有质疑所有关于客观真理的主张，比如数学。

So Foucault would be fascinated by the opportunities created by social media to give a voice to the voiceless and to fight tyranny.

因此， 福柯会对社交媒体创造的机会着迷，这些机会可以让无声者发声并与暴政作斗争。

So what might Foucault say about the world today, where terms like 'fake news' and 'post-truth' are bandied around, and with the rise of social media and algorithms?

那么，随着社交媒体和算法的兴起，“假新闻”和“后真相”之类的术语被广为传播，福柯对当今世界会说些什么？

So the 'archaeological' Foucault would be fascinated by social media, and how the original author of a post can so quickly disappear from view, as the text takes on a self-replicating life of its own.

因此，“考古学”福柯会被社交媒体所吸引，他会想知道一篇文章的原作者是如何如此迅速地从公众视野中消失的，因为这篇文章呈现出一种自我复制的生命状态。