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Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, widely known for his critical studies of institutions, knowledge, power, and discourse. His work continues to influence disciplines like philosophy, sociology, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
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Born: October 15, 1926, in Poi
Michel Foucault • Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
In the 1970s, Michel Foucault observed that the principle of Bentham’s Panopticon was one of the foundational mechanisms of the modern state. In Power, he wrote that Panopticonism is “a type of power that is applied to individuals in the form of continuous individual supervision, in the form of control, punishment, and compensation, and in the form
... See moreGlenn Greenwald • No Place to Hide
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
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
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Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
Michel Foucault explored how knowledge and power are intertwined, arguing that the act of categorizing and analyzing people is a form of control. In AI and data science, every model and dataset carries implicit assumptions about what is important and who gets to decide. This challenges us to consider not just what our systems do, but whose perspect
... See moreGenerally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a c
... See moreFoucault s’est toujours demandé comment l’être humain pouvait « découvrir une manière d’être » qui lui soit propre au lieu de se contenter des usages et des images imposées socialement. « Mon rôle, expliquait-il, est de montrer aux gens qu’ils sont beaucoup plus libres qu’ils ne le pensent, qu’ils tiennent pour vrais, pour évidents, certains thèmes
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