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[...] « Michel Foucault, an interview: sex, power and the politics of identity" - "Interview with B. Gallagher and A. Wilson (1982)" Introduction. At the end of the first volume of The History of Sexuality1, Michel corps et les plaisirs. This enigmatic passage left as a program at the end of The Will to Know is taken up a few years later in this 1982 Canadian interview 'Michel Foucault, an interview: sex, power and the politics of identity'2 » If we stop on this work in particular in the Foucauldian bibliography, it is because we estimate it to be determinant to understand this interview. [...]
[...] II Foucault then develops examples specific to us to make us understand to what extent resistance is the power in exercise. He estimates that even in what could have been a form of oppression characteristic of homosexuals: medicalization, a form of resistance will have been the reappropriation of terms and the violence inflicted on them by homosexuals. This, in the attempt to exist within a power that allows them to exercise a minimal freedom. Thus, from a medicalization of deviation, which had a significant moral aspect, we could pass to a medicalization of a condition called 'innocent' which at the time allowed imposing one's own existence. [...]
[...] Indeed, positioning oneself for or against drugs is for him a false problem. Since it exists, it must be thought of as a new possibility offered to the subject to experiment with their body and the pleasures that can be associated with it. We estimate that these arguments and examples serve to demonstrate that the unthought and especially the unexperienced of our culture has been pleasure. Foucault therefore enjoins us to think the emergence of a gay, lesbian culture that would precisely allow us to change our relationship with the body and pleasures, and to engage with them a process of creation. [...]
[...] Butler, J., Assembly. Plurality, Performativity, and Politics, Paris, Fayard, 2016 Foucault, M., Dits and Writings, 1954-1988, volume IV, 1980-1989, Gallimard, 1994 Foucault, M., History of Sexuality, Vol. [...]
[...] But what Foucault says is that it is precisely in this institutional instability that one should find the contribution and specificity of these movements. III.3. This instability, which seems to be linked to its vulnerability, produces as an effect the questioning of a policy of plans, social, economic, and political programs, which, for Foucault, leads to a failure. He thinks in the political domain a creation similar to that which he described in the bodily sphere, pleasures, and social, of resistance. [...]
