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Michel Foucault

“A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.”

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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