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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Foucault's writings offer possible new 'histories' of the subjects (mental illness, sexuality, 'discourses') that he tackled; they are also imaginative and undisciplined texts.
The idea of an ethics of the self redefines Foucault's relation with a tradition of Enlightenment thought which he rereads through the figures of Kant and Baudelaire.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Is it, perhaps, that like Foucault's prisons or medical clinics, which are the truth-sayers of the hidden rules of power in society at large, the astronomy laboratories, high up on the Andean mountaintops, also provide the ruling, epistemological codes for State terrorism: power as panoptic surveillance; the complicity of knowledge and power in the postmodern condition; and the minute gathering and decoding of information acquired from the static of the physical universe or from the screams of the tortured, a whole dedoublement of stellar knowledge and bodily facticity under the sign of an indifferent galaxy.
It's the entire plot of Foucault's Pendulum , in which three employees of a publishing house paste together an amusing version of the Plan of the Templars out of the half-baked theories they pull from a hundred crackpot manuscripts submitted for publication.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Foucault's 'Transgression' and 'Repressive Hypothesis', Hebdige'stheory of cultural hegemony described in his Subculture: the Meaningof Style, and Cohen's ideas set out in his Fold Devils and MoralPanics are employed to elucidate the social, political, ideologicaland moral function of censorship in Australian society.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Relevance of Foucault's Proposed Author-Functions to Hypertext Authoring Foucault (1969) proposes that the author exists as a variety of functions in discourse.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Foucault's critique of structuralism in Archaeology of Knowledge , reflected the failure of structuralism to resolve the social contradictions manifested at the end of the post-war boom and the loss of confidence in "grand narratives" and is parallel to the emergence of finite mathematics and related technologies relative to analysis and notions of continuum.
Foucault's earlier theory emphasizes the importance of general principles-which he calls an "episteme"-that structure the formation of knowledge within various scholarly fields and determine what kinds of knowledge are legitimate.
Foucault's "gaze" captures at least two things: One, the "clinical gaze" is the means through the physician claims to have captured the objective, deep truth of a patient's disease, a truth prior to, unfettered by, theories and pre-existing categories.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Poststructrualist theory is even making headway in the unlikely fields of business management and accounting: in Australia, Michel Foucault's methodologies are now taken seriously enough to be taught to graduate students in accounting at the University of New South Wales.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Building on Foucault's post-structural critique of sexual ideas and discourses, lesbian, gay, and feminist theorists have repeatedly contested the essential, intrinsic, or universal character of sexual identities.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Official use of photography by governments and law enforcement agencies would seem an overt validation of Foucault's argument as the portrait photograph has become widely used as a form of identification for everything from a passport, driver's license down to obtaining cigarettes at the local corner store.
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