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Michel Foucault
French Historian
Born: Oct 15, 1926
Died: Jun 25, 1984
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There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. Michel Foucault
Oppression Become Invisible New Normal Domination Which Forms
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. Michel Foucault
Love Behavior Power Everyday Our Heads Adversary Causes Very To Love Us Exploits Strategic Fascism Thing Desire
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. Michel Foucault
Strength Power Situation Society Complex Neither Structure Name Particular Institution Attributes Endowed Certain
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. Michel Foucault
Work Truth Art Time Madness Abolition Absolute Break Which Forms Moment
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. Michel Foucault
Man Thought Invention Our Easily Archaeology Date Perhaps End Shows Recent
The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred. Michel Foucault
Time Intelligence Problem Political Hatred Islam Modicum Approach Our We Cannot Our Time Out Come Force Years Essential Cannot Start Position
In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king. Michel Foucault
Political King Analysis Head Still Off Social Cut
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring. Michel Foucault
Government Me Definitions Must Clarity Seemed Also Islamic Said However Familiar Often Far Reassuring
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. Michel Foucault
Life Art Me Become Society Related Our Strikes Something Objects Only Fact Individuals Which
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. Michel Foucault
Work Justice Society Must Only Institutions Does Always Exist Question Itself Just Means
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures. Michel Foucault
Knowledge History Events Thought Philosophy Favor Abandoning Seeking Seems More More And More Structures Discovering Itself Stable The History Of Whereas Literature Appears
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. Michel Foucault
Work Discipline Prison Society Elsewhere Those Individual Through Entrusted Begun Which Who Whole Mechanisms Each Each Individual
This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound. Michel Foucault
Police Become Has-Been Armed Ideological Been Effects Nationalist Fascist Profound
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it: its unity is variable and relative. As soon as one questions that unity, it loses its self-evidence; it indicates itself, constructs itself, only on the basis of a complex field of discourse. Michel Foucault
Book Field Unity Relative Complex Object Variable Only Remain Constructs Simply Soon Contains Within Discourse Loses Questions Itself Hands Cannot Holds Little Basis

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