Strategies of power and the will to knowledge
 

Foucault 73: "we must begin with these positive mechanisms, insofar as they produce knowledge, multiply discourse, induce pleasure, and generate power; we must investigate the conditions of their emergence and operation, and try to discover how the related facts of interdiction or concealment are distributed with respect to them. [...] [W]e must define the strategies of power that are immanent in this will to knoweldge"

> from Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (1976, translated 1977)

> tagged with #knowledge, #power, #pleasure

> created October 7, 2025 at 8:12:11 AM


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