Re: HELP: Power via lang-use?

I don't want to come across as superior in any way, but the translation of
The Discourse on Language is terrible. For a start the title is wrong. There
is, fortunately, a better translation: 'The Order of Discourse', in Robert
Young (ed.), Untying the Text: A Post-structuralist Reader, Routledge &
Kegan Paul, Boston, 1981.

Hope this is useful

Best

Stuart

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From: M.A. King <kingma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 08:07
Subject: Re: HELP: Power via lang-use?


>
>
>On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Mitch Wilson wrote:
>
>> Don't worry, I won't ask again. Well, here goes:
>>
>> If anyone wants to help me out, has any scholar done any type of
>> Foucauldian analysis on Power via language-use in chat room sociality?
Or,
>> which Foucault readings could I apply to an analysis of Power via
>> language-use?
>
>Although it predates Foucault's stuff on power that began with Discipline
>and Punish, I think "The Discourse on Language" (which you can find as an
>appendix to English editions of _The Archaeology of Knowledge_) might be
>the best text to start with: there Foucault enumerates the different ways
>in which language-use is made authoritative, and, conversely, the ways in
>which uses of language are disqualified--which seems appropriate to your
>topic.
>
>Matthew
>
>----Matthew A. King------Department of Philosophy------McMaster
University----
> "The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
> suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
>-----------------------------(Michel
Foucault)--------------------------------
>
>
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