Errors Quote by Michel Foucault

“Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.”

Michel Foucault

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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 punishment that certainly concerns the body itself: rationing of food, sexual deprivation, corporal punishment, solitary confinement … There remains, therefore, a trace of ‘torture’ in the modern mechanisms of criminal justice – a trace that has…

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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 bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc.…

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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 says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as…

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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 truth––was able to make what does not exist (madness, disease, delinquency, sexuality), nonetheless become something, something however that continues not to exist. That is to say, what I would like to show is not how an…

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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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