Foucault and the press

Abstract

This article points to the possibility of thinking and dealing the journalistic discourses in another way. In this way, based on a corpus of about 200 fragments produced and published in the end of century XIX by the Brazilian press, more concretely by two porto-alegrenses newspapers, explores and revises some conceptual instruments created by M. Foucault. The foucaultien perspective configures what we think is the most adequate way to analyze this type of discourses in its journalistic positivity as in its enunciative relations with a series of discourses of that time, which were characterized for combating the individuals that defied the city projects of modernization and the society normalization