People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Tralalero Tralalá

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Tralalero Tralalá

One of the most influential French philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault exposed how power and knowledge are inextricably entangled. Through works including Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The Order of Things, he fundamentally challenged the mechanisms by which modern society manages and disciplines human beings. His archaeological and genealogical methods reshaped the study of power across the humanities.

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Tralalero Tralalá's Other Quotes

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Visibility is a trap.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

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