What is Discourse Analysis? | Michel Foucault | Keyword 

Some work on Agamben's use would be wonderful!

love to listen to this stuff while going to sleep and while awake ofc, golden voice

It wouldn't be the first time

He didn’t redefine them; he explained discourse analysis as a construction of a field or discourse by bringing together disparate ideas and lumping them into a category that becomes constitutive of knowledge. Also your quip that we can’t redefine if the thinker isn’t there is asinine: 80% of the philosophers we talk about are dead, but what we take from their ideas extends beyond that corporeality.

@@gavinyoung-philosophy It's essential though in intellectual work, to understand exactly what the author says. Unless the text itself was meant to be interpreted (like poetry or religious writings).

That's because you are locked into a dualistic thinking way of power

I don't think that's the case. Foucault denied being classified as a postmodernist, and for good reason. He did not claim that all ideas should be treated equal. He realized that some ideas exert dominance over others, and that should not be the case. If I correctly understand his thinking: dominant ideas should stop persecuting minor ones, and instead start rectifying and improving themselves through understanding of the ways, with which they oppose them. Contrary to almost every postmodernist, Foucault did not impose any solutions. He instead presented a real problem that was almost never discussed before.