ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Michel Foucault, Side Effect, Meiosis
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amiss means not getting the point; hester does not get the point that society. Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom michel foucault, the. History of sexuality (1976: the power to truth is secrecy, once the truth is out, there is no power. There"s need to be a listener: the cure is coming out and speaking the truth, confession does have it"s risks. And, from the point of view of the law that imposes it, public torture and execution must be spectacular, it must be seen by all almost as its triumph. Hence no doubt those tortures that take place even after death: corpses burnt, ashes thrown to the winds, bodies dragged on hurdles and exhibited at the roadside. Justice pursues the body beyond all possible pain.
