01/07/06 'the space of the very act of naming?'

Whittens Timber Yard, Area 10, Peckham, London.

In The History of Sexuality (Vintage, 1990), Foucault claims that discourse creates categories and uses them to exert control over a system. The very act of creating names produces deviances and then attempts to correct them, but Foucaultís premise is that the power lies in the act of naming.

Ateya Khorakiwala

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