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Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”

― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben

#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory #subjugate

“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”

― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"

#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory

"The most important thing we learned from #Foucault is that the living (and therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics. There is no politics that is not a politics of bodies."
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Paul B. #Preciado #quotes #bioPower #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory

"Disciplinary #normalisation consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of disciplinary normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm.
In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in disciplinary normalisation, it is the norm.
That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the #normal and the #abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm."

Michel #Foucault in ’#Safety, Territory, Population’, a lecture given at the Collège de France on 25th January 1978; in French : http://www.guillaumenicaise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/foucault-le%C3%A7on-du-25-janvier-1978.pdf
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#quotes #mentalHealth #norms #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory

Hello folks, I am a sociologist at the European University #Viadrina #FrankfurtOder with the main study subject of #practicetheory, #soundstudies and #silence. Influenced by #ANT, #sts #scienceandtechnologystudies, #Frenchtheory, #discourse studies and #poststructuralism. It's good to be here.