Realism Rippled/Ranted Iris
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.
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Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization (via lucjanlocke)

One of my favorite Foucault quotes, and I think perhaps one of the most useful for understanding his ideas, because placed in metonymic juxtaposition with his larger body of thought, it suggests not what Foucault’s philosophy is, but what it is for. Because the heart of Foucault’s work is epistemological and methodological, it frames and answers the interrogation of his philosophy in its own terms; it instantiates the philosophy just as much as it explicates it.

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    Foucault turns me on.
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