You Have a Call on Line One From Michel Foucault

If you're desperate for a perfect(ly disturbing) case study of truth as a regime of power-knowledge (the post is even titled "The truth about blood"), the political work of metaphor, and the biopolitical operations of power, here you go. Witness "hemovigilance," the "tracking of adverse events associated with blood collection and transfusion."

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