Foucault Glossary

• archaeology: A method for analyzing the rules that govern discourse in a period.
• biopower: Power that manages life at the level of populations.
• discourse: Systems of language and practice that define what counts as knowledge.
• genealogy: A method for tracing concepts through contingencies and power relations.
• governmentality: Techniques and rationalities for governing populations.
• power/knowledge: The idea that power and knowledge reinforce one another.