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Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
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Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.
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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Relations of power are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
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there is no glory in punishing
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The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.
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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
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There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
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