I have a dream: in my dream ... Aretha Franklin, in her fabulous black-lipstick "Jumpin' Jack Flash" outfit, leaps from her seat a...t Maxim's and, shouting "Think!," blasts Lacan, Derrida and Foucault like dishrags against the wall, then leads thousands of freed academic white slaves in a victory parade down the Champs-Elysées.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the tru...th of the work of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudde...n appearance.... It's not a night atwinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual ...through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator- judge,... the "social worker"-judge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines ...of a docile, frightened order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strategic adversary is fascism ... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes u...s to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of political... discourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were the ... requirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in w...hich the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »