One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested...Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes… — 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
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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