Jean Baudrillard's essay “Forgetting Foucault” (1977) is a response to Michel Foucault's book “Discipline and Punish.” Baudrillard is trying to rethink the basic concepts of Foucault's research: power, sexuality, production. By demonstrating “how Foucault's text is made,” Baudrillard demonstrates these concepts themselves. According to Baudrillard, they are all reversible. They are in the field of simulation, dispersed and elude analysis, which imposes a rigid structure on them. Foucault's analysis is trapped by the concepts that form the subject of his research and, at the same time, give rise to the text itself.

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