The question here is the same as the question I addressed with regard to madness, disease, delinquency and sexuality. In all of these cases, it was not a question of showing how these objects were for a long time hidden before being finally discovered, nor of showing how all these objects are only wicked illusions or ideological products to be dispelled in the light of reason finally having reached its zenith. It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices—from the moment they become coordinated with a regime of truth—was able to make what does not exist (madness, disease, delinquency, sexuality, etcetera), nonetheless become something.


Lecture 1, January 10, 1979, p. 19 - The Birth of Biopolitics (1978)

Michel Foucault Quotes

The question here is the same as the question I addressed with regard to madness, disease, delinquency and sexuality. In all of these cases, it was...

The question here is the same as the question I addressed with regard to madness, disease, delinquency and sexuality. In all of these cases, it was...

The question here is the same as the question I addressed with regard to madness, disease, delinquency and sexuality. In all of these cases, it was...

The question here is the same as the question I addressed with regard to madness, disease, delinquency and sexuality. In all of these cases, it was...