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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.
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Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.
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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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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
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We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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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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Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.
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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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But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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