Self-Referential Vapour

Spinning off an examination of Republican doublespeak, Jonathan Chait notes that "This is Not a Pipe" was one of Foucault's favorite paintings. Step four in its "process:"

To allow similitudes, on the other to multiply of themselves, to be born from their own vapour and to rise endlessly into an ether where they refer to nothing more than themselves.

"Born from their own vapour and to rise endlessly into an ether where they refer to nothing more than themselves." I don't think I've ever before heard a better summation of obfuscatory postmodern philosophers. Leave it to Foucault...