Michel Foucault's use of ' technologies of discourse ' and ' mechanisms of power ' describes how deliberation is either foreclosed or is a product of a series of technologies of discourse which produce a semblance of agency through the reproductions of power as they occur between individual subjects.

Foucault's use of episteme has been asserted as being similar to Thomas Kuhn's notion of a paradigm, as for example by Jean Piaget.

Politics, according to Foucault's use of the term, is concerned with necessity, necessity of the state which puts to an end to all privileges in order to make itself obeyed by everyone.

Umberto Eco includes a portion of it in the introduction to chapter 50 of Foucault's Pendulum ; and Larry Lawson and Levi Lee use about a dozen lines in their play Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends ( A Final Evening with the Illuminati ).

Foucault's author function is the idea that an author exists only as a function of a written work, a part of its structure, but not necessarily part of the interpretive process.

Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests " an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it ", not necessarily who penned the text.

Foucault's interpretation of governance is also very important in constructing theories of transnational power structure.

Michel Foucault's concept of discourse is closely related to social rules as it offers a possible explanation how these rules are shaped and change.

For example, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is both a history and an inspection of cultural attitudes about madness.

Foucault's relation to Heidegger is a matter of considerable difficulty ; Foucault acknowledged Heidegger as a philosopher whom he read but never wrote about.

The novel is mentioned at the very end of Michel Foucault's Life of infamous men.

The more common attempts to bracket out Foucault's writings on Iran as " miscalculations ," reminds some authors of what Foucault himself had criticized in his well known 1969 essay, " What is an Author?

Foucault's first biographer, Didier Eribon, described the philosopher as " a complex, many-sided character ", and that " under one mask there is always another ".

It is Foucault's only book-length work on literature.

Foucault's relation to structuralism is ambiguous.

The book is among Foucault's most successful and influential works.

The volume was almost complete before Foucault's death and a copy of it is privately held in the Foucault archive.

This is one of the ways that Foucault's work is linked to critical theory.

Philosopher Richard Rorty has argued that Foucault's ' archaeology of knowledge ' is fundamentally negative, and thus fails to adequately establish any ' new ' theory of knowledge per se.

In the northwest corner of the cathedral grounds is Copernicus ' tower, and in the southwest corner an octagonal building with a square bell tower and a small planetarium and a Foucault's pendulum.

The Foucault pendulum ( ), or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Léon Foucault, is a simple device conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.

Foucault's ' episteme ' is too narrow and abstract, not social enough.

* Cagliostro is frequently alluded to in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum.

This displacement of discourse constitutes one of the bases of Foucault's thought: discourse is not tied to the subject, rather the " subject " is a construction of discourse.

* In Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum, Alamut is described in detail towards the end of the novel.

A general discussion by Anders Persson of various aspects of the coriolis effect, including Foucault's Pendulum and Taylor columns.

For this reason, Althusser's " anti-humanism " and Foucault's statements were criticized, by Jürgen Habermas and others, for misunderstanding that this led to a fatalist conception of social determinism.

It remains a seminal work of conspiracy fiction, predating by years such novels as Foucault's Pendulum and The Da Vinci Code.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

In 1940, Foucault's mother took him from his previous school and enrolled him in the Collège Saint-Stanislas, a strict Roman Catholic institution run by the Jesuits ; here, he remained lonely, with few friends.

Although studying an array of subjects at the school, Foucault's particular interest was soon drawn to philosophy, reading not only the works of Hegel and Marx that he had been exposed to by Hyppolite but also studying the writings of the philosophers Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Edmund Husserl ( 1859 – 1938 ) and most significantly, Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ).

It was critically acclaimed by the likes of Maurice Blochot, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, and Fernand Braudel, but much to Foucault's upset, largely ignored in the leftist press.

The university's philosophy department was then under the control of Jules Vuillemin ( 1920 – 2001 ), who had chosen him for the position after becoming impressed by Foucault's then unpublished doctoral dissertation.

The second and third volumes did not appear for another eight years, and they surprised readers by their subject matter ( classical Greek and Latin texts ), approach and style, particularly Foucault's focus on the human subject, a concept that some mistakenly believed he had previously neglected.

In the philosopher's later years, interpreters of Foucault's work attempted to engage with the problems presented by the fact that the late Foucault seemed in tension with the philosopher's earlier work.

In Foucault's view, this treatment amounted to repeated brutality until the pattern of judgment and punishment was internalized by the patient.

* Foucault's Pendulum, a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco

* " Foucault's Pendulum " by Jens-Peer Kuska with Jeff Bryant, Wolfram Demonstrations Project: a computer model of the pendulum allowing manipulation of pendulum frequency, Earth rotation frequency, latitude, and time.

In Foucault's Pendulum, a novel by the Italian philosopher and writer Umberto Eco, the plot concerning a widespread secret and mystic conspiracy has its ground in the disappearance of the Bogomils after the fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

The scholars in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and Middlemarch by George Eliot are named Casaubon.

Foucault's knife edge test determines the shape of a mirror by finding the focal lengths of its areas, commonly called zones and measured from the mirror center.

A slightly more sophisticated model of a vanity press is described by Umberto Eco in Foucault's Pendulum.

In this way, ' Foucault's theories of self have been extensively developed by Rose to explore techniques of governance via self-formation ... the self has to become an enterprising subject, acquiring cultural capital in order to gain employment ', thus contributing to self-exploitation.

The main plot of the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco revolves around search for the Ombilicus Mundi ( Latin: The Navel of the World ), the mystic Center of The Earth which is supposed to be a certain point from where a person could control the energies and shapes of the earth thus reforming it at will.

The novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco deals greatly with this establishment, as the Foucault pendulum hung in the museum plays a great role in the storyline.

The museum appears in literature as the scene of the climax of the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

His book The Body and Society ( 1988 ) offered an innovative approach to the study of early Christian practices, showing the influence of Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault's work on the history of sexuality, though Brown's earlier work had been acknowledged by Foucault as a major influence on his work on Ancient themes.

Abulafia ’ s life inspired a series of literary works such as poems by Ivan Goll, Moses Feinstein ( not Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ) and Nathaniel Tarn ; Umberto Eco ’ s novel Foucault's Pendulum ; and a play by George-Elie Bereby ; in art, Abraham Pincas ’ paintings and Bruriah Finkel ’ s sculptures ; and several musical pieces.