@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2909},
      author = {Kennedy, Derek},
      title = {‘Not One but Many Silences’: The Functions of Silence in  Foucauldian Discourse},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2021-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {From a broad consideration of discourse, a general set of  questions emerges: Who is speaking and what are they  saying? Who is not speaking and what are they not saying?  What is the significance of each in either case? Here I  take up a line of inquiry corresponding to the second part  of this formulation regarding the lack of speakers and  speech. My chosen path into this field of thought is  through the writing of Michel Foucault—an especially  convenient figure due to the capaciousness of his  understanding of discourse. Much work on Foucault and  language is focused on questions of discourse in its  positivity, i.e. what discourse is, how it is formed, and  what its potential power-effects are. However, there is  also a corresponding set of ideas concerning a lack of  discourse—i.e. silence—and much can be meaningfully said  about these ideas in Foucault’s writing. Given these  assertions, this thesis seeks to answer the following  question: what is the function of silence in Foucault’s  understanding of discourse?},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2909},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2909},
}