power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Michel Foucaultthere is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.
Michel FoucaultAs soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a "writer". You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of coherence which is not quite the same as your real life... All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to your identity as a citizen or your social identity, Besides you know this very well, since you want to protect your private life.
Michel FoucaultTags: writing
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.
Michel FoucaultTags: inspirational-attitude
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel FoucaultThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
Michel FoucaultTags: madness-and-civilization
Naš je um razlika diskursa, naša istorija razlika vremena, naše ja razlika maski.
Michel FoucaultPeople will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about
pretending 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.
Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.
Michel FoucaultThe necessity of reform mustn't be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstance should one pay attention to those who tell one "Don't criticize, since you are not capable of carrying out a reform." that's ministerial cabinet talk. Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction that concludes, "this then is what needs to be done." It should be an instrument of those who fight, who resist and refuse what is...
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