Michel Foucault:

The body is directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it.

— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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"I am not a prophet, I am a diagnostician."

"The prison, as a principle of punishment, is a relatively recent invention."

"I am not interested in the truth, but in the history of truth."

"The political is not a matter of choice; it is a matter of necessity."

"My work is not to tell people what to do."

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Date: 1975

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