Power
Method of the Deployments of Sexuality
| Author(s): | John Carvalho |
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| Editor(s): | Lenore Langsdorf, Stephen H. Watson, Karen A. Smith |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press - Albany |
| ISBN: | 9780791437933 View in Library Catalog |
| Parent Book Title: | Reinterpreting the Political: Continental Philosophy and Political Theory |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: |
Politics
Power Sexuality Foucault, M |
| Start Page: | 249 |
| End Page: | 260 |
| Abstract: | The essay adapts the semiology of Roland Barthes's S/Z to interpret a sentence from the first volume of The History of Sexuality where Michel Foucault says what he thinks power is. By reweaving the meaning of Foucault's statement from analyzes of the syntagms that compose it, the essay clarifies the instability of power and identifies power's "fatality," a dependence on producing unstable forms of human existence as a condition for reproducing the complex relations that power everything we value about life itself. |
