"People know what they do.…" — Michel Foucault

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人们知道自己在做什么。通常，他们知道自己为什么这样做。但他们不知道的是他们所做的事情有什么影响。

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“The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure.”

Michel Foucault

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