From the "Power of the Norm" to "Flexible Normalism": Considerations after Foucault

All my books, be it Madness and Society or this one here [Discipline and Punish], are-if you like-little toolboxes. If people want to open them, and use this or that sentence, this or that idea or analysis as a screwdriver or wrench [dessere-boulon] to short-circuit, dismantle, or explode the systems of power, including perhaps those systems from which these books of mine have emerged-all right, all the better.1