Prison Quotes by Michel Foucault

10 Prison quotes by Michel Foucault

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Foucault dissected the architecture of control, and these ten short statements give you a taste of his analysis of how institutions shape and surveil the individual, all within the confines of a prison.

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The soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

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

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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

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Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

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Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones…

Michel Foucault

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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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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual…

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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those…

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But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,…

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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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