Michel Foucault

Details

Nationality

French

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Reason

Subject

Human centred

Political position

Subaltern resistant

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Connections

• authored Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• proposed Panopticism (disciplinary power)
• proposed Heterotopia
• relates to The Instituted Imaginary
• developed Heterotopia
• influenced Edward W. Said

Referenced by

• Edward W. Soja extends

Sources

1. Michel Foucault. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (Discipline and Punish). Gallimard, 1975.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4, 16-17 of 22
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 4-5 of 22