Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — 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
And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back… — 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
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — 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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