ABSTRACT

Whereas so much commentary has focused upon Foucault’s genealogical and archaeological studies, I propose to explore Foucault’s poetics of the visual regime of modernity and morality that have constituted modern man in a moment of history that may be about to efface itself. Since I consider this next moment of modernity not to be very well understood in current celebrations of post-modernity,2 I shall try to set it out with particular attention to the pathos and poetry given to it in Foucault’s work.