Using Foucault's Methods by Gary Wickham, Gavin Kendall

Using Foucault's Methods



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What happens to the concept of transparency if you look at it using Foucault's methods? [v] If Foucault intended his work for users rather than readers, an evaluation of his methods allows us to determine the degree to which we might want to use his scholarly tools. With some lens available in his laboratory besides spending $ 10, he developed his technique. Kendall dan Wickham menjelaskan genealogy sebagai 'a new concern with the analysis of power' (1999:29). That said, it is worth noting that Dewey explicitly contrasts the methods of social science with those of natural science, a distinction that not all philosophers have been careful to make. The mainstay of the book is not concerned with this narrow area, however, but its pre-history, in the sense of the academic discourses which preceded its very existence. Using Foucault's method of revolving mirrors, Michelson developed his unique technique to measure the speed of light. Like Foucault, Dewey thought of inquiry as structured not around a quest for eternal truth, but rather as the melioration of a fraught situation — in other words, both Dewey and Foucault were 'problem-and-response' thinkers (cf. 1.3 The paper opens with a brief extrapolation of modernist interpretations of Foucault's approach, loosely, constructivist, social constructionist, and Critical theory approaches to qualitative methodology. Increasing transparency seems to go hand in hand with the information age, but how far should it go? Of course, among those who ways that of Michel Foucault. FREEDOM AND FOUCAULT: THE POST-POSTMODERN ENLIGHTENMENT.