Foucault and agency

I believe solidly in human freedom. Michel Foucault, (2000) [1984]. Interview with Actes. In Power. J. D. Faubion (Ed.). Tr. Robert Hurley and others. New York: The New Press. An interesting comment in response to my reflections on the Foucault quote for May has prompted me to add these further remarks. Since the early 1980s [...]

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Foucault, an optimistic thinker

Posted on my site michel-foucault.com See here for additional discussion. Didier Eribon: On vous dit assez pessimiste. A vous entendre je vous croirais plutôt optimiste? Il y a un optimisme qui consiste à dire: de toute façon, ça ne pouvait pas être mieux. Mon optimisme consisterait plutôt à dire: tant de choses peuvent être changées, [...]

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Foucault on power and resistance

Posted on my site michel-foucault.com Relations of power are not in themselves forms of repression. But what happens is that, in society, in most societies, organizations are created to freeze the relations of power, hold those relations in a state of asymmetry, so that a certain number of persons get an advantage, socially, economically, politically, [...]

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