Foucault


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
The Foucault Reader
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82
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Best Books about Capitalism
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Mark Fisher
As sociedades de controle descritas pelo próprio Kafka mas também por Foucault e Burroughs, operam por meio da "postergação indefinida": a educação é um processo para toda a vida; o treinamento para o trabalho se estende por toda a vida profissional; o trabalho nunca termina porque você leva o trabalho para a casa; trabalha-se em casa e se fica em casa no trabalho etc. Uma consequência deste modo "indefinido" de poder e que a vigilância externa é sucedida pelo policiamento interno. O controle só ...more
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.
Michael Gira

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