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  2. Author function - Wikipedia

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    The term was developed by Michel Foucault in his 1969 essay "What Is an Author?" where he discusses whether a text requires or is assigned an author. [1] Foucault posits that the legal system was central in the rise of the author, as an author was needed (in order to be punished) for making transgressive statements.

  3. What Is an Author? - Wikipedia

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    What Is an Author?" (French: Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?) is one of the most important lectures given at the Société Française de Philosophie on 22 February 1969 by French philosopher, sociologist and historian Michel Foucault. [1] The Author is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses: ...

  4. The Archaeology of Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Michel Foucault - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. The Order of Things - Wikipedia

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    Foucault's introduction to the epistemic origins of the human sciences is a forensic analysis of the painting Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-waiting, 1656), by Diego Velázquez, as an objet d'art. [6] For the detailed descriptions, Foucault uses language that is "neither prescribed by, nor filtered through the various texts of art-historical ...

  7. Discontinuity (Postmodernism) - Wikipedia

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    Foucault sees power as the means for constituting individuals’ identities and determining the limits of their autonomy. This reflects the symbiotic relationship between power (pouvoir) and knowledge (savoir). In his study of prisons and hospitals, he observed how the modern individual becomes both an object and subject of knowledge.

  8. Do crosswords work? - AOL

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    Crossword puzzles that are too easy won’t help — you have to push yourself to the next level to change your brain. And although fluency is an important brain function, it’s just one of many.

  9. Michel Foucault bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994 Remarks on Marx (1991) 2001 Berkeley lecture series, never published in French Fearless Speech (2001) 2013 Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l'aveu en justice (2012) Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2013)