If Foucault and other poststructuralist thinkers are right (and I believe they are), one is never outside of countervailing power relations in society, which means that, ineluctably, one is always ...

When the Rosetta Stone, which dates back to ancient Egypt and the rein of the Ptolemies, was re-discovered in 1799 it provided an invaluable clue in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone ...

Dr. Bialostok is an educational and linguistic anthropologist by training. His research typically engages discourse analysis with social theory (mostly Foucault, Bourdieu), combining analysis of ...

The French historian of discourse, Michel Foucault, made a clear distinction between the "archive" and the method that he describes as archaeological. While this method does not require a trowel to ...