Michel Foucault

beyond good and evil

power

surveillance

Big Brother

disco

focus

bokeh

Drake

disciplinarity

prison

Valentine's Day

pick-up line

bourgeois

Jean-Paul Sartre

philosophy

E.M. Cioran

Jacques Derrida

disciplinary power

punishment

monopology (game)

's work is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault.

is guilty of reducing moral-practical learning to mechanisms of power and is thus insensitive to the highly ambivalent content of cultural and social modernity.

is not just interested in making an account of his own present, but rather he aims to show how critical engaging of the past transforms the present, whenever that present might be.

is not offering a totalizing critique of one particular age. Rather, he is interested in understanding how a society produces subjects and, in doing so, constitutes itself.

is not attacking reason but rather showing how a historical form of rationality has operated.

is not just interested in making an account of his own present, but rather he aimed to show how critical engaging of the past transforms the present, whenever that present might be.

is not offering a totalizing critique of one particular age. Rather, he was interested in understanding how a society produces subjects and, in doing so, constitutes itself.

is not a historian, but a new kind of map-maker, maps made for use not to mirror the terrain.

Michel Foucault, n.All

Michel Foucault