Doe Quotes by Michel Foucault

12 Doe quotes by Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault brings his sharp analytical lens to Doe, and the twelve quotes here capture his knack for exposing hidden power structures. Though brief, they provide a thought‑provoking snapshot for anyone interested in his critical eye.

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Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that…

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There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to…

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There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and…

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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what…

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There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…

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On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of…

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Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one…

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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what…

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Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back…

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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in…

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Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity…

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

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The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:…

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…

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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

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Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our…

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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that…

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“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…

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“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…

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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…

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“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European…

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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