But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

The soul is the prison of the body.

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

...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.