For 10 points, name this French author of The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish.
One essay by this thinker claims that the title figure exists not as interpretive guide but as structural "function" within a work that indicates status. In one work, this writer of "What is an Author?" traced the historical development of the conditions under which sets of "statements" create networks of meaning. That book, The Archeology of Knowledge, built heavily on a work discussing epistime that opens with an examination of (*) Las Meninas, The Order of Things. This thinker describes the dissociation of identity and disease through the "medical gaze" in one work, while another examines the shift from public torture to "gentler" institutions like Bentham's Panopticon. For 10 points, name this French author of The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish.
One essay by this thinker claims that the title figure exists not as interpretive guide but as structural "function" within a work that indicates status.
Michel {Foucault} [or {Paul}-Michel {Foucault}]