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Foucault’s Triangle – from the 14 January 1976 College de
France lecture series.
2.1.3.08 In ‘The order of discourse’, first published in 1971, Foucault described the
process of exclusion as having three external exclus ions and four internal procedures of
exclus ion. The three external exclus ions are:
i. taboo s ubjects;
ii. the distinction between insane and rational people as credible sources;
iii. and, the division be tween true and false [in Mills, 2004, p57 and Mills,
2005, p57].
Mills [2004] describes the relationship between positions of power and acceptability of
knowledge as being true or false, as per the third external exclus ion, as:
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