We are freer than we think.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.