"Do not demand of politics that it restore the "rights" of the individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the product of power. What is needed is to "de-individualize" by means of multiplication and displacement, diverse combinations. The group must not be the organic bond uniting hierarchized individuals, but a constant generator of de-individualization."

(1926-1984)

"We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it 'excludes,' it 'represses,' it 'censors,' it 'abstracts,' it 'masks,' it 'conceals.' In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. The individual and the knowledge that may be gained of him belong to this production." (Discipline and Punish)

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Things:

"Preface." Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Tr. Robert HUrley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. xi-xiv: Here.

"Introduction." Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite. Trans. Richard McDougall. New York: Pantheon, 1980. vii-xvii: Here.

"Nietzsche, Freud, Marx." Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy. Ed. Gayle L. Ormiston and Alan D. Schrift. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. 59-68: Here.

"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. 76-100: Here.

"What is an Author?" The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon, 1984. 101-120: Here.

Other things:

Discipline and Punish: quotes/excerpts of note

"Relations of Power in Paul Muldoon's "Cuba": here.

Secondary sources:

From Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction: an excerpt

From Contemporary Sociological Theory: an excerpt

From Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century: an excerpt

From Foucault and the Law: Towards a Sociology of Law as Governance: an excerpt

From Critical and Effective Histories: Foucault’s Methods of Historical Sociology: an excerpt

From The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory: an excerpt

Judith Butler, "Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault." The Judith Butler Reader, ed. Sara Salih with Judith Butler. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. 21-38: Here.