“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
“[...] 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