“I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“In a sense,’ Foucault concluded with a flourish, ‘all the rest of my life I’ve been trying to do intellectual things that… — James Miller Copy Share Image
“Wherever you put it, Foucault’s Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning’ (‘Truth, Power, Self’,… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
“subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“But what Marie-Laure remembered, standing at the rail as it whistled past, was her father saying that Foucault's pendulum would never stop.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design… — Paul Rabinow Copy Share Image
“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always… — John R. Searle Copy Share Image
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
“The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
“...confession is believed to reveal the deep truths of who people are (...) Michel Foucault once wrote that we live in a… — Rich Villodas Copy Share Image
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Foucault’s enthusiastic reception of Khomeini was over-determined by his own distaste for the political and economic systems – industrial capitalism and the… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“[...] white supremacy and coloniality still form the glue for the institutional and intellectual disciplinarity of western critical thought. Since the ideas… — Alexander G. Weheliye Copy Share Image
“The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
![“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design and archaeological in its method. Archaeological –and not transcendental– in the sense that it will not seek to identify the universal structures of all…” quote by Paul Rabinow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5a0/paul-rabinow-113670_contingency_foucault-s-criticism-is-not-transcendent_1204346.jpg)
![“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a1/michel-foucault-1134_animals_this-book-first-arose-out-of-a-passage-i_571093.jpg)
![“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a53/michel-foucault-1134_desire_t-hus-one-should-not-think-that-desire-i_1660638.jpg)
![“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and…” quote by Foucault Michel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ae/foucault-michel-62564_censorship_calling-sex-by-its-name-thereafter-the-1_1175862.jpg)
![“[...] white supremacy and coloniality still form the glue for the institutional and intellectual disciplinarity of western critical thought. Since the ideas of the Black Panther Party are limited to concerns with ethnic racism elsewhere, they do not register as thought qua thought, and can thus be…” quote by Alexander G. Weheliye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e84/alexander-g-weheliye-117071_black-panther_white-supremacy-and-coloniality-still-fo_2831417.jpg)
