Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

For this reason, Michel Foucault’s distinction between liberation (conceived of as a momentary act) and practices of freedom (conceived of as ongoing) has been key for me, as when he writes, “Liberation paves the way for new power relationships, which must be controlled by practices of freedom.”

In his late writings, Michel Foucault examined classical Roman biographies to probe how individual subjects came to be formed not only through relationships of power and knowledge (or power/knowledge) but also co-constituted themselves through intentional practices as ethical subjects.3

Je pense même que les rapports humains spontanés, si cela veut dire quelque chose, vont plus vers la concentration du pouvoir que vers sa dissolution, enchérit Joseon. Le pouvoir tend à se renforcer et comme, par définition, il n’est pas sans moyens d’influence, il y parvient souvent. Dans les situations de chaos, ce sont les chefs de clan, de mafi

La logique marxiste s'appuie sur la doctrine selon laquelle l'infrastructure économique conditionne la superstructure idéologique – en d'autres termes : le mode de production des biens induit la façon individuelle et collective de penser. Dès lors, si l'on accepte ce postulat, une révolution qui remplace la propriété privée des moyens de production

For it has always been the role of intelligentsia to act as liaison and as mediators between old and new power groups. Most familiar of such groups is the case of the Greek