Michel Foucault's Conception of Discourse as Knowledge and Power

This video provides a basic overview of Foucauldian discourse, defined by Foucault, as ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledge and relations between them. Sources Foucault, M. (1972/1980). Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings, 1972- 1977. New York: Pantheon Books. Foucault, M. (1969/1972). The archaeology of knowledge (A. M. S. Smith, Trans.). New York: Pantheon Books. Laclau, E. & Mouffe, C. (1985). Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics. London: Verso. Laclau, E. & Mouffe, C. (1985/2003). “The proliferation of struggle and the category of the subject.” In Finlayson, A., ed. Contemporary political thought: A reader and guide. New York: New York University Press. Hall, S. & Jhally, S. (Ed.). (1997). Representation & the media. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation. Hall, S. (1992) “The West and the rest”, in S. Hall & B. Gieben, B. (eds), Formations of Modemity. Cambridge, Polity Press/The Open University.