“Supposing Truth Were a Woman...”

1988/11/01 by Wendy Brown · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Philosophy and Social Theory #Political Theology and Sovereignty

paper · doi:10.1177/0090591788016004005

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Abstract

What is found at the historical beginnings of things is not the inviolable identity of their origin; it is the dissention of other things. It is diaparity. —Michel Foucault

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