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The use of space, the segmentation of time, and the culling of data are elaborated here -- the important follow up to Marx's analysis of the working day and the precursor to Deleuze's concept of the control society. Foucault shows that the military p
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
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