Foucault

“Where there is power, there is resistance.” 

― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality 

People do not 'have' power implicitly; rather, power is a technique or action which individuals can engage in. Power is not possessed; it is exercised. And where there is power, there is always also resistance.

About this philosopher tons of things could be said. I found his life to be pretty interesting, most of all, I thought about how strong he had to be to cope with his sexual orientation and the fact that he was considered to be sick.

I have read his book Discipline and punish a long time ago..if you haven't read it, i strongly suggest you to do so. It is really intresting and enriching, his main themes are four torture, punishment, discipline and prison.

This book helps us understand how power is used against us as a tool of control, and even if you are totally in favor in the use of force, you will have a little voice that will make you doubt and open you head and eyes! I actually had some anarchist thoughts! 

This post is going to be different from what I am used to do, my idea here, is to post some pharases and I envite you to comment on what you think they mean or how you react to them!

“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?

What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”

“But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.” 

“The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.” 

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”