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Visibility is a trap.
We are freer than we think.
there is no glory in punishing
The soul is the prison of the body.
Where there is power, there is resistance.
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.
What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.
Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.
[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.