Quotes About Foucault

A particular episteme is bound to give rise to a particular form of knowledge. Foucault called the latter a discourse, by which he meant the accumulation of concepts, practices, statements, and beliefs that were produced by a particular episteme.

This coupling of erudite (scholarly) knowledges and embodied (popular) knowledge is what Foucault refers to as genealogy.

Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

Michel Foucault reminds us that in societies that organize massively to incarcerate its citizens "there is no outside" for anyone.

Liberal racist pity, as well as a conservatives' racist callousness, were both engines of Lockdown America. Foucault's works remain important, enabling us to see carceral machinery working across multiple spheres of social life and political ideology.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations