Ubiquitous Foucault

Because where you least expect him is where he will be.

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Beyond either the difficulties or the contributions in the argument of any one author, neither Marxist nor radical feminist points of view have tended to embrace the status of a partial explanation; both were regularly constituted as totalities. Western explanation has demanded as much; how else could the ‘Western’ author incorporate its others? Each tried to annex other forms of domination by expanding its basic categories through analogy, simple listing, or addition.

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”

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Society is not what holds us together, it is what is held together.

Bruno Latour

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[E]numeration requires categorization…[D]efining new classes of people for the purposes of statistics has consequences for the ways in which we conceive of others and think of our own possibilities and potentialities.

Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance

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#ubiquitousfoucault can't with the archaeology of knowledge. #libraryofcongress #foucault #michelfoucault (at The Library of Congress)

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#ubiquitousfoucault visits Washington DC. #michelfoucault #foucault (at United States Capitol)

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"[A statement] is inseparable from an inherent variant. Consequently, we never remain wholly within a single system but are continually passing from one to the other (even within a single language). A statement operates neither laterally nor vertically but transversally, and its rules are to be found on the same level as itself."

Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (1986)

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The work of making, maintaining, and analyzing classification systems is richly textured. It is one of the central kinds of work of modernity, including science and medicine. It is, we argue, central to social life.

Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star

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An archaeology of surfaces.

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[Necropolitics and necropower] account for the various ways in which, in our contemporary world, weapons are deployed in the interest of maximum destruction of persons and the creation of death-worlds, new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living dead.

Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics"

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If the power of normalization wished to exercise the old sovereign right to kill, it must become racist. And if, conversely, a power of sovereignty, or in other words, a power that has the right of life and death, wishes to work with the instruments, mechanisms, and technology of normalization, it too must become racist.

Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended"

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[W]e no longer experience the visible yet unverifiable gaze but a network of nonvisualizable digital control.

Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom

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“[W]ar is about two things [since the second half of the nineteenth century]: it is not simply a matter of destroying a political adversary, but of destroying the enemy race, of destroying that [sort] of biological threat that those people over there represent to our race.”

Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76

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And all this ceaseless labor—to what end? Merely to entomb oneself deeper and deeper in silence, it seems, so deep that one can never be dragged out of it again by anybody.

Franz Kafka || Investigations of a Dog (via socratic-thinker)

The operations of discipline

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“[T]he state does not have an essence. The state is not a universal nor in itself an autonomous source of power. The state is nothing else but the effect, the profile, the mobile shape of a perpetual statification (étatisation) or statifications, in the sense of incessant transactions which modify, or move, or drastically change, or insidiously shift sources of finance, modes of investment, decision-making centers, forms and types of control, relationships between local powers, the central authority, and so on.”

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics

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“Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.”

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics

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