福柯空间思想演进过程探微

On the Evolution of Foucault’s Thought of Space

福柯的空间研究经历了从话语到权力的逐步深入过程。早期福柯对空间的研究以话语为对象,以考古学为方法,试图说明话语的形成不是一个基于连续性时间逻辑的思想史研究,而是确定各个话语层次的非连续性散布空间的考古学研究。随着研究的深入,福柯发现,话语形成的差异体系恰恰是权力运作的表现,而权力的空间性运作既是对领土、城市的空间配置,又是对人的身体的塑造。要而言之,在知识、空间和权力的共谋关系中重构历史是福柯思想的义旨。

Foucault’s spatial research has experienced a gradual process from discourse to power.His early study of space takes discourse as the object and archaeology as the method and tries to explain that the formation of discourse is not a study of ideological history based on the logic of continuous time,but an archaeological study of the discontinuous distribution space of various discourse levels.With the further research,Foucault finds that the difference system formed by discourse is just the performance of power operation,and the spatial operation of power is not only the spatial allocation of territory and city,but also the shaping of human body.In short,reconstructing history in the collusion of knowledge,space and power is the purpose of Foucault’s thought.