Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 02:13:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "M.A. King" <kingma-AT-mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>
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)--------------------------------