Paul Rabinow
Known for his work on the anthropology of science, particularly his engagement with Michel Foucault's ideas and studies of biotechnology.
Quotes by Paul Rabinow
The interview is a co-production, not an extraction of truth.
Life's meaning emerges from the narratives we weave with others.
Anthropology critiques the very foundations of Western knowledge.
Technology amplifies human desires, but doesn't create them.
The past is not gone; it's reinterpreted in every present moment.
Fieldwork is a dialogue, fraught with misunderstandings and insights.
Humanity is defined by our capacity to question our own humanity.
In Morocco, I learned that hospitality is a form of power.
Science is a moral enterprise, disguised as neutral.
The body is a site of cultural inscription.
Resistance is never pure; it's entangled with the very systems it opposes.
Teaching anthropology is teaching doubt.
Memory is a collaborative fiction.
The global is local, scaled up through human connections.
Foucault's genius was in showing how freedom is disciplined.
Anthropologists must confront their own complicity in knowledge production.
Life's profundity lies in its ordinary disruptions.
Discourse shapes reality more than reality shapes discourse.
The lab is a microcosm of society at work.
To understand culture is to unravel its contradictions.