Michel Foucault
Power structures, postmodernism
Sayings by Michel Foucault
I am an atheist, and I am a homosexual.
The prison is the only place where the law is completely and openly violated.
The discourse of truth is not always true.
Sexuality is a historical construct.
The body is the inscribed surface of events.
The greatest danger for the present is the future.
The judge of normality is therefore the judge of abnormality.
The medical gaze is a political gaze.
The history of sexuality is not a history of repression.
The discourse of power is always a discourse of truth.
The panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad.
The death of man is the death of God.
The clinic is a place where the sick are observed, classified, and treated.
The confession is a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship.
The asylum is a space of exclusion and control.
The intellectual's role is not to tell others what they must do.
The exercise of power is not a simple game of prohibition.
The sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
The gaze is a mechanism of power.
The author is a function of discourse.