Contributions to reconstruct the contemporary episteme. A reading from Foucault by Rigotti, Sebastián Miguel

“…In order to achieve our purpose, we analyze the work of some Post-structuralist French thinkers and Mass Communication Research. Finally, we conclude that the event that gives rise to the configuration of Western knowledge and the conformation of the contemporary episteme is related to both, sense and information, which contribute to outline the contours of the characteristics of man and language in the new episteme.  …”
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FROM BIOPOLITICS TO PSYCHOPOLITICS: COMMUNICATION, POWER AND SUBJECTIVITY BY MICHEL FOUCAULT by Cerruti, Pedro

“…Firstly, the problematicity of the absence of an in-depth inquiry into mass communication devices in his work is taken as a starting point; and it is proposed a reading of Foucault’s oeuvre focusing on the few places in which he referred to the theme, especially his reflections on the emergence of the notion of “public” as a dimension of the “population”. …”
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