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Welcome to the michel-foucault.com site. This site provides a variety of resources relating to the work of the famous French philosopher who lived from 1926 to 1984.

My book on Foucault (2005)

Quote for July 2009

When I speak of a 'disciplinary' society, I don't mean a 'disciplined society'. When I speak of the spread of methods of discipline, this is not a claim that 'the French are obedient'! In the analysis of normalising procedures, it is not a question of a 'thesis of a massive normalisation'. As if these developments weren't precisely the measure of a perpetual failure.

Michel Foucault, (1994) [1980] 'La poussière et le nuage' In Dits et Ecrits vol. IV. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 15-16. This passage translated by Clare O'Farrell

Reflections on this quotation (my blog)

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New network linking researchers working with Foucault, other contemporary theorists and education