[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.

If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?