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Feeling like some Foucault:
'My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.'
'Truth, power, self: An interview with Michel Foucault October 25 1982', in Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault Eds Luther H. Martin and Patrick Hutton, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, p.10
And:
'Everyone has their own way of changing, or, what amounts to the same thing, of perceiving that everything changes. In this matter, nothing is more arrogant than trying to dictate to others. My way of no longer being the same is, by definition, the most unique part of what I am . Yet God knows there are ideological traffic police around, and we can hear their whistles blast: go left, go right, here, later, get moving, not now... The insistence on identity and the injunction to make a break both, and in the same way, feel like abuses.' (trans.mod.)
Michel Foucault, (1979) [2000] 'For an ethic of discomfort' in In J. Faubion, ed., Power (New York: New Press, 2000), pp. 160-1. Translated by Robert Hurley. p. 444.
'My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.'
'Truth, power, self: An interview with Michel Foucault October 25 1982', in Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault Eds Luther H. Martin and Patrick Hutton, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, p.10
And:
'Everyone has their own way of changing, or, what amounts to the same thing, of perceiving that everything changes. In this matter, nothing is more arrogant than trying to dictate to others. My way of no longer being the same is, by definition, the most unique part of what I am . Yet God knows there are ideological traffic police around, and we can hear their whistles blast: go left, go right, here, later, get moving, not now... The insistence on identity and the injunction to make a break both, and in the same way, feel like abuses.' (trans.mod.)
Michel Foucault, (1979) [2000] 'For an ethic of discomfort' in In J. Faubion, ed., Power (New York: New Press, 2000), pp. 160-1. Translated by Robert Hurley. p. 444.