From: "David Brockman" <d.brockman2-AT-gte.net>
Subject: The Subject and Power
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:34:06 -0600


(I posted this a while back and received no responses.  So I thought I'd try
one more time.)

Perhaps one or more of the participants in the Foucault list could clear up
a muddy issue for me.  In "The Subject and Power," the afterword to Dreyfus
and Rabinow, _Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics_ (2nd ed.,1983), p. 223,
Foucault lays out five areas of investigation for an analysis of power
relations.  My question concerns the third and fourth points: "The means of
bringing power relations into being," vs. "Forms of institutionalization."
Foucault's description doesn't clarify the difference between the two, at
least in my reading.  For example, he cites "systems of surveillance" as an
example of *means*, but that would (to my mind) fall into the
*institutionalization* category.

Can someone clear up for me what Foucault means by these third and fourth
categories, and how they differ from each other?

Thank you.

Peace,
David Brockman
Graduate Student, Theological Studies
Brite Divinity School (TCU)
Fort Worth, Texas USA