ABSTRACT
Foucault was an exceptionally visual and ‘spatial’ writer. His texts are abundant with vivid images that call for theoretical research on spatiality in which seeing, surface and space all have a role. In this final chapter, under ‘spatiality’ I shall examine this aspect of Foucault’s work that in part intersects with his discourse on art and aesthetics. My commentaries will mainly relate to the essay ‘On other spaces’ (Foucault 1993), Death and the Labyrinth (2004), the ‘Theatrum Philosophicum’ essay in Language, Counter-memory, Practice (1977) and selected extracts from the essays in Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology (1998) and Dits et écrits volume 4 (1994). The theoretical ground of these texts will be addressed in terms of spatial references identifying the change in Foucault’s discourse that demonstrates how spatial metaphors from his early works have turned into the discourse on space.
Foucault’s manner of thinking has always been animated and spatial. His thoughts give the impression of unfolding in a three-dimensional display.
