These are terms used by Foucault (e.g., 1976} to describe the discourses and the techniques that are put into place from around the period of the Enlightenment to constitute populations and subjects. [..]

This is a term introduced by Foucault in his studies of discourse and the process of production of knowledge (see Foucault, 1976). It refers to the effects of power in the field of knowledge and indic [..]

A misleading term. What is the problem at the basis of the disputes and confusions? And, what is at stake? Clearly it is meant to mark a break with structuralism. It is worth starting with the origina [..]

This term has become so overused that it is tempting to dispense with it altogether. Yet, because it appears in all manner of discussion about the state of the world today, it is important to establis [..]

Kuhn (1962) in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions addressed the problem of how scientists went about their daily work as scientists: what frames their investigations, what rules guide their pract [..]

One can think of over-determination as a specific case of complex or mul¬tiple determination, that is, as situations and occurrences where there is no one simple cause in the form of A causes B. Inste [..]

The term other immediately brings up a two term relation: the same and the other, the I and ‘You’, identity and otherness. At the most immediate level, there is the recognition that each person exists [..]

This is the idea, associated with the Annales school of history in France that developments in history take a long time to emerge clearly enough, and that historical research should therefore examine [..]

I use imaginary by reference to Lacan’s use of the term. In Lacan it is always one of three inter-related terms, the other two being the Symbolic and the Real. The capitals indicate the difference fro [..]

The term hegemon refers to a leader, a dominant power or state. The concept has mainly been developed by Gramsci (1971). The problem which the concept in Gramsci addresses is this: domination can be s [..]