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One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human 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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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of the world the experience of madness was clouded by images of the Fall and the Will of God, of the Beast and the Metamorphosis, and of all the marvelous secrets of Knowledge
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Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.
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Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.
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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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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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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
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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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We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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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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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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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
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Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
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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. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
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