What the Foucault?!

Some highly-credentialed intellectuals came up with these (which tells you a lot about the state of academia today)--five papers from an academic conference about TV "reality" show Jersey Shore:

• “Problematic Pleasures and Affective Moments: Theorizing Jersey Shore” (University of Oregon) 

• “‘SHOTS!’ An Analysis of Italian, American and Italian-American Beverage Consumption in Jersey Shore” (Duquesne University) 

• “Foucault’s Going to the Jersey Shore, Bitch!” (McGill University) 

• “Platonic Justice and Jersey Shore” (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 

• “Situating the Situation: Psychogeography, Mimetic Desire, and the Resurgent Indo-European Trifunctional Paradigm in Seaside” (North Carolina State University