When people say, 'Well, you thought this a few years ago and now you say something else,' my answer is… [laughs] 'Well, do you think I have worked hard all those years to say the same thing and not to be changed?'" He refused to identify himself as a philosopher, historian, structuralist, or Marxist, maintaining that

"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning".

In a similar vein, he preferred not to claim that he was presenting a coherent and timeless block of knowledge; he rather desired his books "to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area… I don't write for an audience, I write for users, not readers."

Reading the work of Foucault in this busy time of life helps to understand just exactly what it is I am doing in relation to what I started out doing. Amorphous yes and often not visibly structured, it is a way of moving to something that is yet to be defined if ever.

Consider the last part of Foucault's statement above; that he "writes for users not readers" and apply it to filmmaking, blogging, and so on. Has there been anything of use as a 'life tool' that you have seen in a film lately?

How about a blog?