ABSTRACT
The productive power of discourse about sex and its relationship to control and discipline is the subject of this discussion with Bernard-Henri Lévy. 1 In opting for an investigation of what is most hidden in the relations of power, Foucault challenges the essentialized myth of Marxist “class struggle” and thus questions the utopian dream of revolution as a liberating struggle. Originally published as “Foucault: Non au sexe roi” in Le Nouvel observateur, March 12, 1977, this interview was translated by David J. Parent as “Power and Sex,” in Telos 32 (1977), 152-61.
