Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power.
— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Date: 1977

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