Michel FoucaultThinkers

Abnormality is being not like everyone else, which has, in turn, been reduced to being sick.

Actuality is another way of saying 'the present order' which is inaugurated by an event, an event that repeats that which came before.

Adjacency is the treating not of visible similitudes between things but of the bonds and joints between things, which account for more subtle resemblances of relations such as stars to the sky in which they shine, plants and the earth, between diamonds and the minerals in which they are buried, sense organs and the face they animate, skin moles and the body of which they are the secret marks.

Alethurgy is, in a barbarous and rough way, to say that what we call knowledge (connaissance) (i.e. The production of truth in the consciousness of individuals by logico-experimental procedures) is only one of the possible forms of alethurgy. Alethurgy.

Alethurgy is the manifestation of truth as the set of possible verbal or non-verbal procedures by which one brings to light what is laid down as true as opposed to false, hidden, inexpressible, unforeseeable, or forgotten. There is no exercise of power without something like an alethurgy.

Analysis is a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action just as political practice is an intensifier of thought.

Analysis of an institution is a form of analysis concerned with the institution's rationality, its result, its use, and its strategic configurations.

The Analytics of finitude is the study of how it is possible that the very forces that make us finite (our subjection to space, time, causality, e.T.C) are also the conditions necessary for knowing anything.

Anatomo-politics is the management of population in its depths and details.

Anatomo-politics is the treatment of the body as a political object to be manipulated and made useful to political ends.

The Anthropological triad is the fields of life, labor, language which foucault believed to be capable of opening up new conceptions of the human.