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“There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.”

Quote by Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosopher known for his critical analysis of knowledge, power, and discourse. His work covered a wide range of topics, including madness, prisons, sexuality, archaeology of knowledge, and biopolitics. Foucault's ideas have had a profound impact on postmodernism, critical theory, and cultural studies. more

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“Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.”

Kind Soul Form Practice Species Sexuality Temporary Homosexuality Homosexual Interiors Aberration Androgyny

Author:Michel Foucault

“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”

School Prison Hospitals Factories Surprising

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“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.”

Reality Fall Economy Illusion Ideology Regimes Dividing

Author:Michel Foucault

“Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.”

People Important Law Common Weapons Division Introducing Proletariat Bourgeoisie Tactical

Author:Michel Foucault

“There is nothing outside the text”

Author:Jacques Derrida

“A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.”

Reason Causes Consciousness Effects Activity Determination Opposition Etc Tolerate Strategic Cause And Effect Passivity Lexicon

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.”

Mean Has Beens Dies Accepting Ought Absolutes Philosophical Oneself Philosopher Redemption Acknowledge Outcomes Mortality Resurrection Plato Positive Outcome

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.”

Mean Term Survival Conventional After Death

Author:Jacques Derrida

“The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.”

Attitude Cutting Possibility Medical Questioning Transforming Judicial

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.”

Has Beens Made Given Memories Break Tension Preservation Mixtures Fidelity Deconstruction

Book:Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

Source: Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida