/lit/ - Literature

Im trying to understand Foucault. What where his core principals? What point was he trying to make?

Im reading stuff about him that ultimately doesnt help me. It says first he wanted to write about authority, then realized he was actually writing about power, but then he changed his mind again and said the whole point of his lifes work was examining extreme human experiences? What?

I know the meme that all institutions resemble prisons, and that people are trying to tell me that the society we live in resembles Benthams panopticon, but what is the point? Things resemble other things.
Power relations exist.
People thought of crazy people one way and later thought of them differently.
Whats the punchline?

Im a brainlet, please help.

>>7249879
>linking an article with a title like that rather than the actual conversation itself
oh look it's another "lets make sam harris a target because of his popularity and association with reddit and atheism because we're 4chan contrarians thread"

>>7126888
>fedora meme

>>6586808
Thanks for the response, but I'd notice if any given one of them stopped busting a gut at your shallow grasp of meta-reality.