Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide (Introducing...) by Chris Horrocks

Author:Chris Horrocks [Horrocks, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848317697
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2014-06-05T05:00:00+00:00

Foucaults non-discursive formations (economic processes, institutions) produce discourses and become organized (or “said”) by them; in a superficially similar way, Althusser’s relates to its ideological superstructure.

Against Structuralism

Although Foucault was seen as a member of the Structuralist Gang of Four, alongside Barthes, Lacan and Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), he wasn’t really a structuralist. There was too much history and phenomenology in his work.

Structuralism tends to ignore historical change and looks for universal underlying rules and relationships.

In language or myth, for example.

Permanent structures into which individuals are born.

Structuralism is ultimately rejected by Foucault as too monolithic, too static and too inflexible to transformations.

I differ from those who are called “structuralist” in that I am not greatly interested in the formal possibilities presented by a system such as language … this particular controversy is now acted out only by mimes and tumblers. My archaeology historicizes meaning.

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