Foucault Dictionary
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Dictionary for the Study of the Works of Michel Foucault
updated 03/21/99 courtesy of Lois Shawver Please submit your correspondence to rathbone@california.com.
Websource: http://users.california.com/~rathbone/foucau10.htm Aphrodisia the UNITY of sexual act/pleasure/desire, the very intensity of which causes sexuality to become problematic archeology [The] archeological level -- the level of what made [an event or a situation] possible." (The Order of Things, p.31) Strict analysis of discourse (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.104) Archeology and genealogy alternate and support each other.(Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.105). Archeology is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change. binary system a distinction that is black and white so that things are thought of as only one way or the other. "Power is essentially what dictates its law to sex. Which means first of all that sex is placed by power in a binary system: licit and illicit, permitted and forbidden." (The History of Sexuality, p.83). bio-politics The increasing state concern with the biological well-being fo the populationincluding disease control and prevention, adequate food and water supply, sanitary shelter, and education. (Foucault 1979, p.170 as cited in Darier, p.587) bio-technico-power (or bio-power) a distinction that is black and white so that things are thought of as only one way or the other. "Power is essentially what dictates its law to sex. Which means first of all that sex is placed by power in a binary system: licit and illicit, permitted and forbidden." (The History of Sexuality, p.83). Bio-power emerged as a coherent political technology in the seventeenth century. It has two poles or components. First is the pole of scientific categories of human beings (think of species, population, race, gender, sexual practices, etc.). This pole is tied to the practice of confession. The second pole is disciplinary power (which he analyzes in Discipline and...
updated 03/21/99 courtesy of Lois Shawver Please submit your correspondence to rathbone@california.com.
Websource: http://users.california.com/~rathbone/foucau10.htm Aphrodisia the UNITY of sexual act/pleasure/desire, the very intensity of which causes sexuality to become problematic archeology [The] archeological level -- the level of what made [an event or a situation] possible." (The Order of Things, p.31) Strict analysis of discourse (Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.104) Archeology and genealogy alternate and support each other.(Dreyfus & Rabinow, p.105). Archeology is structuralist. It tries to take an objective neutral position and it avoids causal theories of change. binary system a distinction that is black and white so that things are thought of as only one way or the other. "Power is essentially what dictates its law to sex. Which means first of all that sex is placed by power in a binary system: licit and illicit, permitted and forbidden." (The History of Sexuality, p.83). bio-politics The increasing state concern with the biological well-being fo the populationincluding disease control and prevention, adequate food and water supply, sanitary shelter, and education. (Foucault 1979, p.170 as cited in Darier, p.587) bio-technico-power (or bio-power) a distinction that is black and white so that things are thought of as only one way or the other. "Power is essentially what dictates its law to sex. Which means first of all that sex is placed by power in a binary system: licit and illicit, permitted and forbidden." (The History of Sexuality, p.83). Bio-power emerged as a coherent political technology in the seventeenth century. It has two poles or components. First is the pole of scientific categories of human beings (think of species, population, race, gender, sexual practices, etc.). This pole is tied to the practice of confession. The second pole is disciplinary power (which he analyzes in Discipline and...