Quotes from Michel Foucault

U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one si?ušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela ?ove?jeg i ?ine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.

I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area.

Çok s?radan zevkler uÄŸruna baÅŸka zevkleri elimizden kaç?rd?k.

Oh, you know, I don't believe that the problem of personal experience is so very important

But it must not be forgotten that 'politics' has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.

Utopía del pudor judicial: quitar la existencia evitando sentir el daño, privar de todos los derechos sin hacer sufrir, imponer penas liberadas de dolor.

Order is, at one and the same time, that which is given in things as their inner law, the hidden network that determines the way they confront one another, and also that which has no existence except in the grid created by a glance, an examination, a language; and it is only in the blank spaces of this grid that order manifests itself in depth as though already there, waiting in silence for the moment of its expression.

Toda esa atención charlatana con la que hacemos ruido en torno de la sexualidad desde hace dos o tres siglos, ¿no está dirigida a una preocupación elemental: asegurar la población, reproducir la fuerza de trabajo, mantener la forma de las relaciones sociales, en síntesis: montar una sexualidad económicamente útil y políticamente conservadora?

Rendir cuentas, didonai logon de la propia vida, no es hacer el relato de esa vida, es mostrar si uno es capaz de poner de manifiesto la existencia de una relación armónica entre el logos, la razón, el discurso razonable del que uno puede valerse, y su manera de vivir.

templanza es representada con toda regularidad entre las cualidades que pertenecen —o por lo menos deberían pertenecer— no a cualquiera, sino en forma privilegiada a aquellos que tienen rango, posición y responsabilidad en la ciudad.

It [Iranian Islamic Revolution] is perhaps the first great insurrection against global systems, the form of revolt that is the most modern and the most insane.

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

dans Histoire de la folie, « a priori historique et concret » dans Naissance de la clinique ou épistémè dans Les Mots et les Choses101 relèveront de ce transcendantal historique que l'on détermine comme le principe de configuration des positivités historiques.

Le droit de punir a été déplacé de la vengeance du souverain à la défense de la société.

I'm well aware that I shouldn't be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I'm not certain they're worth publishing. I'm a bit terrified at the idea that one day they'll be discovered.

Sand???m?zdan çok daha az Yunanl?y?z. Ne tiyatro basamaklar?n?n ne de sahnenin üzerindeyiz; bizzat yönlendirdiÄŸimiz -çünkü onun bir çark?y?z- onun iktidar etkileri taraf?ndan kuÅŸat?lm?? olarak, Panopticon makinesinin içindeyiz.

Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity

méthode, selon lequel tout donné a un droit originelm » ; la psychologie phénoménologique sera élucidation de ce droit originel tel qu'il concerne le donné dans le flux immanent de la conscience : elle constituera une éidétique de la conscience tout comme les mathématiques constituent une éidétique de la nature.

Hay que admitir más bien que el poder produce saber (y no simplemente favoreciéndolo porque le sirva o aplicándolo porque sea útil); que poder y saber se implican directamente el uno al otro; que no existe relación de poder sin constitución correlativa de un campo de saber, ni de saber que no suponga y no constituya al mismo tiempo relaciones de poder.

Mais surtout, alors qu'en 1955 Foucault confrontait finalement des « expériences de pensée », en 1966-1968 la terminologie sera celle des « discours » : ce sont les « mutations du discours philosophique » qui seront étudiées.

only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.

Truly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

In fact, the terror of the public execution created centres of illegality: on execution days, work stopped, the taverns were full, the authorities were abused, insults or stones were thrown at the executioner, the guards and the soldiers; attempts were made to seize the condemned man, either to save him or to kill him more surely; fights broke out, and there was no better prey for thieves than the curious throng around the scaffold.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possesses revolutionary force.