Abstract
This study discusses some elements to think the relations between the production of the academic discourse and the place of the University starting from the problematization of the modern episteme and the notion of science and cientific knowledge. To do so, it seeks, in the foucaultian theory, subsidies to build the notion of cientific knowledge as truth about the world and life, produced in relations of power and conflicting forces. Therefore, discipline and control transversalize the modern episteme and take roots not only in asylums and prisions, but also in institutions of formal education, producing different kinds of enclosure. If, in disciplinary societies, enclosure acts over bodies, one can say that in controled societies, the control over bodies makes them reproduce diverse forms of enclosure. Upholding practices of resistance, stemming from ethic thought, to confront such enclosure becomes a contemporary necessity.
Keywords:
truth; knowledge; university