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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 ...
In her 1995 book, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Duke University Press), [24] Stoler draws on archival research, as well as Foucault’s 1976 Collège de France lectures, to rethink how we trace genealogies of race with and without European colonialism. [25]
Many definitions of discourse are primarily derived from the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. In sociology, discourse is defined as "any practice (found in a wide range of forms) by which individuals imbue reality with meaning". [2] Political science sees discourse as closely linked to politics [3] [4] and policy making. [5]
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 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]
In the inaugural lecture course "The Will To Know" Foucault goes into detail on how the 'natural order of things' from the 16th century transpired into a fully organised human society which includes a "Governmentality" apparatus and a complex machine (by "governmentality", Foucault means a state apparatus which is conceived as a scientific ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
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 ...