Readings for today
- Roland Barthes, excerpt from "Myth Today."
- Michel Foucault, "On Method." in the RED book
- John Storey, Chapter 6 in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Click HERE for the book.
- Guide: 'Structuralism' from the Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts
- Guide: 'Post-structuralism' from the Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts
- Guide: 'Deconstruction' from the Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts
- Guide: An overview of post-structuralism
- Michel Foucault, excerpts on 'discourse', power/knowledge, and structuralism.
- David Gunkel, "Deconstruction for Dummies" from Hacking Cyberspace.
- John Storey, "Structuralism & Post-Structuralism" (Chapter 6) in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.
- An interview with Michel Foucault entitled "Body/Power," from Power/Knowledge, Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977.
- Peter Dews, "Power and Subjectivity in Foucault," New Left Review, Issue #144, March-April 1984, pp. 72-95.
- Very useful lecture notes and outlines on Michel Foucault from Professor John Protevi (Louisiana State University). In particular, take a look at his outlines on Discipline and Punish and The Subject and Power. Also see his lecture notes on 'Situating Foucault'
- Claude Levi-Strauss, "Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology," Structural Anthropology (1958).
- Notes on Claude Levi-Strauss' "The Structural Study of Myth."
- Raymond Williams, "Marxism, Structuralism and Literary Analysis," New Left Review, Issue #129, September-October 1981, pp. 51-66.
- Chris Weedon, "Feminist Principles of Poststructuralism" in the RED book
