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

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which 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.

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