Michel Foucault. Social Theory and Transgression

Warfare without war: Intervention in the international system

“…This age saw 'the development of strategies for controlling for political purposes the bodies of potential workers'. 18 In Discipline and Punish, Foucault sets the proposition out most clearly. The body is the site of oppression; it is the target of political tactics and techniques ultimately to control persons through the exercise of power without recourse to violence.…”

“…14 The production of knowledge and truth, the value attributed to science, and the conception of social and political relations are all intimately associated with the exercise of power. Warfare is an example of the exercise of power.…”

Norms and normalization: Michel Foucault's overextended panoptic machine

“…16 The years preceding had seen the publication of several excellent exegetical studies of Foucault's project as it had evolved from his classic work, Madness and Civilization [Cousins and Hussain, 1984;Dreyfus and Rabinow, 1982;Lemert and Gillan, 1982;Sheridan, 1980]. Perhaps the most comprehensive of these exegetical critiques is Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow's Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics.…”

Discourse, genealogy, social theory and a society in transition: The challenge facing the human sciences

“…This is probably why the work of Michel Foucault -perhaps the most consistent heir to Nietzsche's philosophy of power in the 20th century -has attracted the attention of so many scholars interested in the relationship between knowledge and power. Lemert and Gillan (1982), for instance, perceive a commonality between Foucault's work and social theory in terms of power, which explains why they propose to evalu- Soc1cty m transition. 2000.…”

“…Sarup 1993: 130-131)-it seems to me that a Foucaultian theoretico-practical strategy in dealing with social reality is a promising one, especially because despite various appropriations (cf. Dreyfus & Rabinow 1982;Lemert & Gillan 1982;Poster 1984 andFraser 1989) -Foucault can hardly be said to have become 'mainstream' in the human sciences. But more importantly, his persistent attempts (cf.…”