ABSTRACT
The relational fabrics of love, erotic pleasure, friendship and homosexuality are doubly problematic from the angle of power and government. Foucault highlights that the sharing which constitutes friendship, love, erotic pleasure and homosexual relatedness is not restricted to particular things, aspects, properties, or even spheres of life or existence. Such qualitative intersections between the notions of homosexual or ‘queer’ relations and the relations forged through contemporary art are too striking to be neglected, although Foucault himself does not articulately acknowledge them. Gay relationships are a deeply and articulately politicised issue for Foucault. In the late 1970s, Foucault concentrates on the liberal art of governing and its integrally related, conditioning form of knowledge, that is, political economics.
