Institutions Quotes by Michel Foucault

10 Institutions quotes by Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault’s ten terse remarks on institutions cut straight to the heart of power dynamics. Though limited in number, they carry his signature analytical edge, giving readers a quick taste of his critical approach.

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I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have…

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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

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Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the…

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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on…

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You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling…

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The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both…

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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,…

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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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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,…

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It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that…

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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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