Foucaultian Things

This week I'm re-reading Allen Frantzen's Desire for Origins coupled with James Simpson's Burning to Read. Frantzen's book is necessary for me to reread every few years just because it is about identity--the identity that readers formulate when they read medieval books. And this is something I'm always wondering about: why read medieval; what is it about us that constructs our (my!) identities, scholarly and otherwise? Frantzen has an interesting section on Foucault, whose picture I reproduce here from wpclipart, because, I think, I hardly ever imagine scholars as faces (just books and book titles!) and I want to think of him as a person. And also because I need to link to this image from elsewhere!