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There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.

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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

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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.

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We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

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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.

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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.

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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

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Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

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Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: October 15th, 1926

Died: June 26th, 1984

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