Michel Foucault Quotes About Prisons

Quotes about: Prisons

• Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

  Michel Foucault

  School, Prison, Factories

  Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.176, MIT Press

• Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

  Michel Foucault

  School, People, Prison

• Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

  Michel Foucault

  Population, Prison

• In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Teacher, Children, School

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

• The soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Soul, Body, Prison

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

• The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

  Michel Foucault

  Political, Soul, Body

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.27, Vintage

• Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

  Michel Foucault

  Jail, Discipline, Prison

• But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

  Michel Foucault

  Real, Philosophical, Exercise

  "Discipline and Punish". Book by Michel Foucault, 1977.

• Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Littles, Information

  Source: www.critical-theory.com

• 'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

  Michel Foucault

  Doors, House, Prison

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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