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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemic assumptions, ways of thinking, which determine what is truth and what is acceptable discourse about a ...
The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject individuals, and which define a conceptual system of possibility that determines the boundaries of ...
Foucault cites the main driving force behind this set of accelerated change was the modern human sciences and the technologies both available to skilled professionals from the 16th century and a whole set of clever techniques used to shift the whole old social order into the new order of things.
Jean Baudrillard's 1977 tract Oublier Foucault (trans. Forget Foucault) made Baudrillard instantly infamous within France, as it was a devastating critical analysis of Foucault's book the History of Sexuality—and of Foucault's entire oeuvre. In 1976, Jean Baudrillard sent this essay to the French magazine Critique, where Michel Foucault was ...
In The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966), Foucault showed how history replaced taxonomy, systematic knowledge replaced collections of data. The teaching hospital, la clinique , was established upon the new medical praxis of verifiable observation, which is scientifically more accurate than the old medical praxis based ...
Foucault Live (2nd ed.), edited by Sylvère Lotringer (1996) The Politics of Truth, edited by Sylvère Lotringer (1997) Ethics: subjectivity and truth (Essential Works Vol. 1), edited by P. Rabinow (1997) Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Vol.2), edited by J. D. Faubion (1998) Power (Essential Works Vol. 3), edited by J. D ...
In his lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault often defines governmentality as the "art of government" in a wide sense, i.e. with an idea of "government" that is not limited to state politics alone, that includes a wide range of control techniques, and that applies to a wide variety of objects, from one's control of the self to the "biopolitical" control of populations.
Foucault presents the hypothesis that, in every society, the production of discourses is controlled with the aim of: 1. exorcising its powers and dangers; 2. reducing the force of uncontrollable events; 3. hide the real forces that materialize the social constitution. To this end, he theorizes that external or internal procedures are used. [9]