Diary writing as a technology of the self Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From a functional standpoint, diary writing can be seen as a complex strategy of self-construction. It is, however, not only strategy as an expression of personal intentionality, but also a cultural technique for the production of identity. This understanding of the diary takes up Michel Foucault’s notion of the “technology of the self”. In an article under this title, originally published in 1984, which treats his last project on the ...