Knowing Foucault, Knowing You

This paper weaves together a number of stories, stories of knowledge of self and others, for which it is suggested that Foucault’s ideas are useful, in particular for indicating their mutual contingencies. These are ‘personal’ stories that are, however, not only ‘mine’ but rather intimations of broader structurations and constraints on configurations of subjectivity for which we need to evaluate rather than merely 'apply' foucauldian perspectives. How these stories are linked, and what they teach us about Foucault’s relevance, in the context of (what has been called) the pedagogical society, becomes a question taken up later.