Michel Foucault – Between The Purple Passages

Between The Purple Passages

by Ashley Zimunya

The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

1. The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (1976) 2nd year “Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Gender, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michel Foucault
Reading Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ against Michel Foucault’s ‘What is An Author?’

In his essay ‘What is an Author?’, Michel Foucault explores the relationship between author and reader, offering a critique on what he terms the “author function”, or the role of the author and the implications of this on readers.1 One crucial point he makes is that the desire for singularity… Continue reading

Past Essays, Prose and Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, The Purloined Letter, What Is An Author?