Questions & Answers

For the last few months, a poster on Foucault-L has posted countless queries like this:

Which of Foucault's applied archaeologies do people find the best? The most rich or stimulating? Applied as in excluding the methodological The Archaeology of Knowledge (which is a great book in its own right as a statement of what archaeology is).

And this:

So how would one rate The History of Sexuality volume 1, in relation to Foucault's other work?

And this:

Do you know of any way to refute the criticism of Spark Notes, with regards to the method of archaeology and the last chapter of the Archaeology of Knowledge?
What are your thoughts on archaeology as a method.

I ask, "Do questions like these belong on an academic list that discusses the work of Michel Foucault? How do these types of questions further the study of Foucault's methods, writings, and theories?"