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“Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.”

Quote by Michel Foucault

Book:Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Focusing on the historical transformation of punishment from public spectacle to solitary confinement, Michel Foucault examines the role of power and control in the development of the penal system. more

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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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“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”

People School Social Function Institutions Prison

Author:Michel Foucault

“In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.”

Writing Language Space Subjects Creating Disappear Manifest Pins

Book:Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Source: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.”

People Light Institutions Busy Sexuality Customs Regulation Discourse Noisy Slumber Eagerness Broadcasting

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.”

Ifs Trying Reason Dream Values Lost Relation Errors Diseased

Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.”

Courses Force Interest Space Combination Operations Passages Smooth

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think”

Book:Dialogues II

Source: Dialogues II

“The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.”

Knows Heart Action Law Known Moral Guilt Sentences Flesh Guilty Application Execution Thread Duplicate

Book:Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties

Source: Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties

“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”

Ifs Years Done Culture Forget Subjects Particular Involved Ten Tasks Exception Admiration Zero Reserves Forget It Get Involved

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.”

Infinite Constant Curves Folds Finitude

Book:Foucault

Source: Foucault

“Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.”

Thinking Country Age Young Player Taught Instinct Soccer Killers Other Countries Young Age Finishing Drills Soccer Player Killer Instinct Most Favorite

Author:Landon Donovan