Foucault and Porter
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We are becoming increasingly normalized - and both Michel Foucault and Theodore Porter want us to be concerned about this fact. And not just the fact that the increasing use of statistical data in societies for the past two centuries tends to produce an atmosphere in which anyone who deviates from the norm (which is, of course, established through statistical analysis) is all too easily made over into a deviant) - although this is certainly a cause for concern on the part of Foucault. But also because - and this is one of Theodore Porter's main concerns - because there is now more and more information about each one of us is known and used, often against us.Porter argues that governments and citizens now
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