# Message or noise?
Michel Foucault (1966)
“Message or Noise?” is Michel #Foucault’s response to a “Colloquium on the Nature of Medical Thought,” convened in the pages of French medical journal Le Concours Médical by the psychiatrist Cyrille Koupernik. The debate begins in Volume 88, Issue 42 of the journal (15 October, 1966), featuring contributions from Cochin Hospital’s Chair of Clinical Medicine Henri Péquignot, physician and director of Concours Médical Jean Robert Gosset, gastroenterologist Jean-Jacques Bernier, and medical journalist Raymond Lepoutre. Foucault’s article appeared in the following week’s edition, Volume 88, Issue 43 (22 October, 1966), alongside a response by historian and philosopher of science François #Dagognet, titled “Le Tour de Babel” (“The Tower of Babel”). The essay was republished in #MichelFoucault, Dits et Écrits, Vol. 1 eds. #DanielDefert, #FrançoisEwald and #JacquesLagrange (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2001) 585-588.
