There is no neutral subject. We are of necessity someone's adversary. (M. Foucault) 

Ah Foucault! Saint to some, sinner to many. Although I generally don't participhis hagiography, I think that this quote I have selected as a subtitle to this site is an excellent summary of how I view the world from the various seats I occupy in the theatre of life.  

The quotation I reference above comes from a series of lectures given in Paris at the College de France in 1976. In fine Foucauldian fashion, the lectures are a rollicking journey among a dizzying array of subjects that finally congeal around themes of power, surveillance, the body and inequalities. Marks(2000) offers an excellent analysis of Foucault's project.   

• Power should be studied from the margins,rather than the centre;  

• Focus s hould be on the constitution of subjectivity, not the "party line" of those that control ideology and resoucres (the "Leviathan"); 

• Any analysis of power should be on how it "passes through" individuals and is reflexively related to identity, rather than a simplistic discussion of power being exercised on actors; 

• Analyse power from below and not from above; 

• Examine power as a process whereby knowledge is accumulated and circulated among individuals, not the univalent construction of ideology.