Articles

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Articles

"Stepping Through the Eye of Power: Foucault, Limits, and the Construction of Masculinity"

By Cameron Duff.

"Technologies of the Self:" Foucault and Internet Discourse

By Alan Aycock of the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

How can some of Foucault's ideas and perspectives be usefully applied to the study of the mass media in society?

Essay by Steven Green. From Theory.org.

Some thoughts on Foucault and Zen

Essay by Francis Farrell. From Theory.org.

Foucault's Virtual Passion

By Herculine Guibert, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, Boston College. An excellent review of James Miller's biography The Passion of Michel Foucault (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Pb: Anchor Doubleday, 1994). I have read half of the book to date and find Guibert's assessment insightful. The book has aroused some controversy as he explains.

History and the Real: Foucault with Lacan

By Charles Shepherdson, Department of English University of Missouri at Columbia.

Foucault: Virgin or Saint

By Timothy O'Leary. A review of David M. Halperin's Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (Oxford University Press, New York, 1995) and Simon Goldhill's Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and The History of Sexuality (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Power and Resistance in the Social: The Critical Theory of Michel Foucault

By John Pratt of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at Massey University

Philosophy of Language

A very brief but tantalizing excerpt from Structures and Strategies of Discourse: Remarks Towards a History of Foucault's Philosophy of Language by Arnold I. Davidson.

A New Generation of Thinkers

Excerpt from Clare O'Farrell's Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? (London: Macmillan, 1989. pp.1-19). Located at the Foucauldian.

Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault - October 25th, 1982

Excerpt from L.H. Martin et al, Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (London: Tavistock, 1988. pp.9-15.) Located at the Foucauldian.

They see you but you don't see them: Big Brother is watching you on video.

Excerpt from a lecture by Andre Vitalis on the use of video surveillance cameras in public places. Located at the Foucauldian.

Power/Knowledge, Society, and Truth: Notes on the Work of Michel Foucault

Essay by Mathier Deflem at Purdue University.

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